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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

Teen Serial
I am NOT spending Shabbos alone with Ma and Ta. I refuse

By Ariella Schiller

Reel Chronicles
We agreed to come up with concepts for these six videos, complete with several parameters: actors, multiple locations, and voiceover narration

By Moshe Shindler

Summer Series
My contribution to our class news on Mondays was, “My father went to Pennsylvania,” and on Fridays, “My father came home from Pennsylvania”

By Esther Adler

EndNote
For seven years, his voice regaled listeners on JRoot Radio’s “Leil Shishi with Yoely”

By Riki Goldstein

As They Grow
Are we only supposed to speak to him during bein hazmanim?

By Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald

Flashback
I used to feel a slight sense of failure as I deleted the fancy dishes that never materialized. Today, I look at it as a triumph of sorts

By Bassi Gruen