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Family First Feature
Why kids are vaping younger and younger, and what we can do

By Barbara Bensoussan

Family First Inbox
“What an outrageous, unfair, untrue, and plain motzi shem ra statement to make about an entire generation!”

By Family First Readers

A Better You
There are three common areas that parents are hesitant to discuss with their children: facts, feelings, and physicality

By Family First Contributors

Musings
“But that’s Yiddish. Don’t you have a Hebrew name?” she pressed

By Zelda Goldfield

To Be Honest
Faigy is a widow. She lost her husband some time ago. She loses him every day

By Ahuva Roth

Family Tempo
“Everyone is so excited that you’re joining us today. It just feels like we can be a family again. Your father would be so happy”

By Esther Kurtz

Windows
I’m not sure whether to feel disappointed or relieved at the relative simplicity of the deed

By Chashie Stern

Family First Serial
That quiet inner voice was followed by an unexpected realization. I care about Artie and his future: I love my brother

By Miriam Zakon

Serial
Libby’s voice, so calm and methodical moments ago, was now high and tinged with something he refused to call anxiety

By Ariella Schiller

Screenshot
If we stop projecting our own take, what new discoveries and understandings will we glean?

By Shoshana Friedman

Connect Four
How can the saddest day of the year, marking the most catastrophic tragedies in history, be called a holiday?

By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Flashback
Some people will never really get it. Perhaps, even if I explained until I was blue in the face, the apology would never come, at least not the way I hoped it would

By Devora Kaufman

A Heaping Scoop
Here’s my 30-second filling snack

By Family Table Contributors

Family Connections
“I’m always uncomfortable with my husband when we’re in a public setting. I know that people don’t respect him”

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe