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A Better You
The first step to healing is knowledge, so that you can then develop strategies to work with your brain instead of against it

By Family First Contributors

By the Letter
Speech is the expression of the soul

By Cindy Landesman and Mindel Kassorla

Family First Feature
Are clinical trials a viable option when no other treatment is bringing results? When her vision suddenly deteriorated, one woman had to make that decision

By Malkie Schulman

Family First Editor's Letter
Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.

By Bassi Gruen

Family First Serial
Are you worried that donors will find out and think this was tzedakah money being used?

By Gila Arnold

Family First Serial
“Mama, Yoel says things are getting a little out of control there.”

By Miriam Zakon

Family Reflections
Respecting others’ boundaries shows we love them

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

LifeTakes
The shrieks arise from all sides, as we, strangers all of us, jump in a completely unrehearsed, perfectly synchronized dance of dread. It’s an instinctive scream, helpless in its ...

By Hindy Heimowitz

For the Record
As I did not understand a word except now and then an Amen or Hallelujah, my attention was directed to the haste with which they covered their heads with their hats as soon as the ...

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Reel Chronicles
The idea of dramatically (and comically) showing where tech would fail as opposed to just explaining where it would help gained traction

By Moshe Shindler

Outlook
I must admit that as reminders of the end of youth go, one’s first heart attack ranks well above a couple of failed efforts on the basketball court.

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Second Thoughts
The Messiah has come! Shops closed, crowds began lining the streets, musicians unwrapped their instruments, car horns blared. The Messiah has come!

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Tribute
In Tribute to Rav Yosef Mitnick ztz”l whose shloshim was the beginning of last week

By Chani Elefant (née Altman)

Open Mic
Why, I’d wonder, do I keep feeling like I must apologize for not being able to attend simchahs and social gatherings?

By Dena Mason