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Family First Feature
Your definitive guide to the unwritten rules of frum life

By Michali Naiman and Chana Fishman

Family First Inbox
“I know too many ‘yeshivish’ young men who can’t get a date because they aren’t learning full time”

By Family First Readers

A Better You
It’s hard to know if someone’s parenting ideals are aligned with yours until there are real, live children

By Family First Contributors

Musings
Three weeks of answering the friendly query “What’s new?” with “Not much”

By Shira Fogel

Sidekick
Warning: Any goldfish my kids bring home are an endangered species

By Hadassa Swerds

Family Tempo
They both laughed, and Michal remembered for a fleeting moment what she’d felt when they were dating. It was nice

By Esther Kurtz

Family First Serial
Annie’s face, already a little pale, whitened. “Close the hotel? You can’t. We can’t. It would kill Papa”

By Miriam Zakon

Family First Serial
“Are you the Ayala Wexler? Like, the one who runs the organization for people going through medical emergencies?”

By Gila Arnold

Family Diary
I loved this type of full-family mayhem and I was in heaven. But always, as always, forever conscious of what Chezky was doing, where he was, was everything safe

By Tzippi Leibenson

From My Table
When I opened a bag of marshmallows to work on these s’mores, no one was around and my kitchen was silent. Somehow within minutes I had a crowd of kids waiting for a taste!

By Chanie Nayman

Parshah
It’s fundamental to realize and internalize that everyone is influenced by his surroundings — for good or bad

By Faigy Peritzman

Recipes
The sundried tomato sauce brings you a meal experience that is bursting with flavor and elegance, and the aroma is something out of this world

By Sima Kazarnovsky

Halachah
The halachos of lost and found

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

Magazine Feature
The Vayimaen movement taps our innate ability to say no

By Shmuel Botnick