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Family First Feature
When the cards are not in your favor

By Chav Eisenberg

Flashback
“One’s good deeds are one’s most authentic offspring.”

By Miriam Kosman

Family First Feature
Six students of Rebbetzin Denah Weinberg reminisce about this great woman and the transformational impact she had on their lives

By Ariella Schiller

Family First Feature
Family First convenes a panel to study why we’re so overwhelmed — and how to combat it

By Naomie Rubner

It Happened at Midnight: Pesach Theme 5783
While the world dreams and the stars twinkle, the Creator neither slumbers nor sleeps. Ten stories of midnight miracles, epiphanies, and revelations

By Family First Contributors

Family First Feature
Three women looked around, saw the void in their families, and realized they could be the ones to fill it

By Shterna Lazaroff

Family First Feature
 In this honest diary, Batya Sherizen recounts how encountering death shaped her into the woman she is today

By Batya Sherizen and Rafaella Levine

Family First Inbox
“Assign me with a Day of Defiance — so I can publicly, proudly buck the intimidating silliness. Perhaps I’ll be a voice of reason”

By Family First Readers

Windows
I wrote a list, then heralded the squealing children around the house as my husband joyously found one crumb after another

By Raizy Friedman

The Moment
Is there any way to recapture that sense of joint family effort in handcrafting the Yom Tov’s focal mitzvah?

By Yochonon Donn

Calligraphy
“You need to choose to fight this monster or he’ll get the better of you. You can live a happy life, you can break free of this. The first step is to want to get better.”

By Michal Marcus

Family First Serial
“Oh, come on. After everything in the last few weeks, this is the date that renders you speechless?”

By Chava Meisels

Double Take
Why couldn't my daughter ever come to me for Pesach?

By Rochel Samet

Calligraphy
What does that feel like, to be at peace with your lot in life, even if that lot is standing at the corner of Kikar Shabbos and Malchei Yisrael on a cool Jerusalem morning, annoyi ...

By Ariella Schiller