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A Better You
Why does the need for therapy in seminary or yeshivah overseas come up?

By Family First Contributors

By the Letter
Mem reflects the ability to start a process even when the outcome is concealed. Nun symbolizes the furthering of this belief

By Cindy Landesman and Mindel Kassorla

Family First Serial
The rabbi could wait. The Beatles were here.

By Miriam Zakon

Family Reflections
We have built-in tools to help us stay calm during crisis

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Flashback
There are all kinds of bubbies out there nowadays. I don’t have to be exactly what my Bubby was to me or what my mom is to my kids

By Peshie Needleman

Family First Inbox
I know I was difficult, but do I not give my parents nachas? 

By Family First Readers

Family Diary
“This is the resident doctor at the hospital. You must come and get your son immediately. We are not equipped to deal with him here.”

By Tzippi Leibenson

LifeTakes
The newsletter is yet another reminder that I am on the outside looking in, that I don’t belong. But do I want to rejoin?

By Miriam Maggid

Family First Feature
What if you could get to the root of your pain — and heal it — by taking stock of your emotional state?

By Russy Tendler

Windows
While I groped for ways to climb out of the slump, I didn’t have the luxury of emotional space to figure out how to move forward

By Leba Friedman

Jr. Serial
I want to tell her everything, but also I just can’t. And suddenly I’m angry; why am I so far away? Why does it have to be this way? Why, why, why?

By Rochel Samet

Business Casual
A great leader is someone who practices the art of listening

By Sarah Massry

Magazine Feature
Divorce mediation spares families from ugliness and rancor

By Yael Schuster

Guestlines
Matan Torah is very much alive today. Because we, too, were there

By Rabbi Hillel Shepard