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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

A Healthier You
When the force of a blow or fall is strong enough, the brain bangs against the skull, and this can cause injury to the brain

By Chaya Rosen

The Moment
True greatness in Torah and true greatness in humility are inextricably intertwined

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Teen Fiction
We were the picture-perfect family, Mommy, Daddy, and me

By Aliza Field

Works for Me
“What you can do is choose to appreciate his positive qualities, the obvious one being the fact that he’s happy to support you doing work you love”

By Shaina Keren

On Site
“Guys in yeshivah started asking me for haircuts, and I gained a reputation for being good with a scissors and a trimmer”

By Ariella Schiller

Serial
Akiva wondered if one day he, too, would be shutting down his kids’ creative ideas… in the name of being a Frankel

By Ariella Schiller