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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

Down to a Science
It turns out that fireflies are way cooler than I ever imagined

By Yael Zoldan

Halls of Power
Two criteria help determine who will be VP: the front-runner’s orbit, and vote-getting

By Maury Litwack

Story Time
Rousing himself from his exhaustion, Shimshon rolled over, got to his feet shakily, and then followed the smell into the nearby forest

By Y. Bromberg

The Explainer
The debate over climate change is heating up, and the hot weather is sure to fan the flames

By Yaakov Lipszyc

DMCs
I would find myself crying not for Kaila and her family, but for the simplicity of my own life before this all happened

By Ariella Schiller

For the Record
Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin (1881–1973) was one of America’s greatest poskim

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer