Family First Feature
Two mothers share their harrowing postpartum stories — and how they got help
SisterSchmooze
Come plunge into the Kinneret with “Team SisterSchmoozePlus” — named for the three of us plus two next-generation daughters
On your Mark
Giti Fredman started “Just Bake It” workshops, where she brings people together to create delicious memories
Family First Inbox
“Tell me that beautifully designed canteens, with pastrami and beef-laden menus aren’t creating tremendous peer pressure for campers”
A Better You
Safer and more effective alternatives to give coughing kids some relief
Family Tempo
“When you depend totally on Hashem, it’s as if He says, ‘Oh, you know that only I can help you? I’ll show you that you’re right!’ ”
Musings
Summer arrives in a blast of heat, and once again I’m hit with the rude reality that adults just don’t get summer serenity
Family First Serial
“I come here a lot on Sundays. It’s a great place to think about what I want from life — and what I don’t want from it”
For the Record
“If one sets out to produce only generals, who knows if there will be any soldiers?”
Second Thoughts
Is this not cynical, to use that in which you do not believe in order to further your political aims?
EndNote
Rabbi Elisha Klausner is a longtime rebbi in Chicago's Telshe Yeshiva, as well as a popular baal tefillah and music lover
Voice in the Crowd
They don’t just want words on a page, but something that will reach inside them and make them feel, or think, or care
Halachah
As women don’t have the obligation of tefillah b’tzibbur, the only reason for you to go to shul is if you will daven better, with more kavanah
