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Family First Feature
Letters from parents, teachers, and students as they reflect upon school years past and share their dreams for the one that’s starting

By Family First Contributors

Family First Feature
Food was my life — until I tasted true freedom

By Miriam Bloch

Family First Inbox
“Penny-pinching is a personality trait. It masquerades as principled and frugal. But it has little to do with the economic resources available”

By Family First Readers

A Better You
If last year’s homework situation in your home could best be described as tense, stressful, or excruciating, don’t despair

By Family First Contributors

Family Tempo
I run a hand over my face. I’m too old for this. I’m too tired for this. I’m too Lanni-phobic for this

By Ariella Schiller

Windows
An SUV plowed into the trunk with a crunch that seemed, at the same time, to shake my ivory tower to its foundations

By Esther Shemtov

Family First Serial
“It’s a great opportunity, Abe. We’ll build something really important together. Think about it and get back to me”

By Miriam Zakon

Family First Serial
It would be the ultimate proof that Dini had no concept of how regular people lived

By Gila Arnold

For the Record
What ultimately facilitated shemiras Shabbos in the United States

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Reel Chronicles
Our job was to build up the emotional element, thereby encouraging people to open up and share their stories

By Moshe Shindler

Outlook
There appear to be no limits on what the protesters would do to damage their country and their fellow citizens to prevail

By Yonoson Rosenblum

LifeTakes
Was my need to protect my sanity greater than my desire to understand my student?

By Chaia Frishman

Halachah
Women (and men) do not recite v’zos haTorah unless they can see the open, unrolled klaf 

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt