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A Better You
Our thoughts are incredibly powerful and can play a major role in determining the course of our lives

By Family First Contributors

By the Letter
Kaf is the ability to adapt ourselves to life’s challenges. Lamed infuses the heart with what we’ve learned from the challenge

By Cindy Landesman and Mindel Kassorla

Family Reflections
We must challenge our inner critic’s comments

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Family First Inbox
I also hope my children realize my love for them even though I wasn’t perfect

By Family First Readers

LifeTakes
It had been months since my son had worn tzitzis

By Penina Steinbruch

Medical Mystery
My midwife told me that since I wasn’t vomiting  much, there was nothing to do but wait it out. Yet with each passing day without eating and drinking, I was getting weaker

By Shayna Safran

Family Diary
Mashiach is coming now, and he’ll make me all better! In a few hours I won’t have ASD anymore

By Tzippi Leibenson

Musings
If someone asks me what I do all day, I tell them that finding every occasion I can to celebrate is becoming my full-time job

By Sarah Moses Spero

Outlook
Yonoson Rosenblum mourns the mother who shaped his deepest values 

By Yonoson Rosenblum

SisterSchmooze
Join us as we renovate an apartment, work in close quarters, and find out a baby’s name — each elevated by its connection to our mother’s excellent words of wisdom

By Marcia Stark Meth / Emmy Leah Stark Zitter / Miriam Stark Zakon

True Colors
“Everything’s in order. There’s nothing wrong with the brakes, kid”

By Chaya Rosen

Windows
It doesn’t help that I have an irritating anthropomorphic attitude toward inanimate objects, worried that they will “be sad” to be abandoned and alone in the world

By Lea Pavel

Flashback
My vulnerability is my pride, it’s the reward of a courageous and scary journey. Needing something does not make you unworthy

By Rochel Ester Travitz

Magazine Feature
With Rabbi Joey Haber's unique blend of Sephardi mesorah and a yeshivish education, he gracefully straddles different demographics while promoting life-enhancing messages common t ...

By Barbara Bensoussan