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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

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

By Chaya Rosen

Family First Serial
“I’m sure you don’t want me to be uncomfortable right? The same way I don’t want you to be uncomfortable. Ever.”

By Chava Meisels

Family First Serial
Here’s my answer: everything in the story could have happened, even if it didn’t

By Leah Gebber

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

Serial
Eliezer’s temper flares. “Would you drop everything if Yudi had been arrested for arson?” he asks, his words slow and threatening

By Bashie Lisker

The Current
This was not the first attack on Jews in Djerba

By Yaakov Lipszyc