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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

Calligraphy
Now Jacob’s pathetic cries were a mockery, and I trembled, my knees pulled tight up to my chin. I could not, would not hold him in my arms and watch him slip away. Not again

By Perl Weisz

Parshah
To truly experience Yom Tov, the feelings have to come from a deeper source

By Faigy Peritzman

Outlook
The dangers of disunity to the fate of the Jewish People, and the power of unity

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Calligraphy
Wrinkles are an honor when grandchildren count them. He has his four grandchildren from his son Meir. I, as he’s well aware, am a bubby to no one.

By Esty Heller

Words Unspoken
Not because she didn’t want to, but because she was advised by a specific askan not to tell her family

By Anonymous

Voice in the Crowd
I’m not saying to consider out-of-town girls before in-town girls, just asking that you give them equal consideration

By Yisroel Besser