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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

Words Unspoken
He has an entire world that he needs to return to when he leaves your office

By Anonymous

Standing Ovation
The shul became utterly still, and everyone began to dance in silence around this man and the sefer Torah he clutched so lovingly. There was no singing, no clapping, no noise what ...

By Dovid Nachman Golding

Encounters
On the Zoom screen, I could see my mother start to cry. “You were being destroyed, Gershon,” she said softly. “I had to get you out of the situation. I know it hurt you, and I’m s ...

By C. Saphir

The Beat
“He will fight tooth and nail and do everything in his power to challenge the result and stay in the post”

By Y. Davis