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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

Inbox
“Cremation is both a tragedy and a crisis in the Jewish world, with approximately 50 percent of all Jews choosing cremation”

By Mishpacha Readers

Encounters
I was tired. And I was tired of asking for miracle

By Ariella Mendel

 
Under discussion was a incident involving matzah in the mails, and the US Postal Service’s deliberate destruction of this delivery

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Calligraphy
“I’m not going to be riding horses anymore. And I couldn’t find a way to tell you, so I didn’t. But seeing as you’re here anyway, coming to tell me about other bad choices I’m mak ...

By Rachel Newton

Family First Serial
“When a man is this weak, you do not ask him what he wants.” He forces himself to stay calm. “Pillows. Bring me pillows”

By Leah Gebber

Second Thoughts
In the final analysis, are we humans any more than facsimiles of racehorses?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman