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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

The Rose Report
Once again, we have merely kicked the can down a very dangerous road

By Binyamin Rose

Diplomatic Notes with Malcolm Hoenlein
Any threat to the unity of Jerusalem under Jewish control is not something that Israel or world Jewry can yield to

By Gedalia Guttentag

The Lens
While he has passed on to the Next World, the photo captures his otherworldly chein for posterity

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Recipes
This is a great, easy, make-ahead dish to help round out a menu

By Michal Frischman

On Site
Ari & Ari meet the Hebrew-speaking spiritual seekers of Ivory Coast

By Ari Z. Zivotofsky and Ari Greenspan

FamilyTable Feature
With this sunny mix of fresh florals you can create your own Shavuos bouquet and keep it fresh all week long

By Shiri Feldman