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Family First Feature
What are we really doing all day? A group of seven women, ages 20 to 65, decide to find out just where the time goes

By Aviva Lison

Etched in Memory: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5784
Sometimes there are events so monumental they’re perfectly preserved as a snapshot, never forgotten. 5 readers share the moments forever

By Family First Readers

Hanging in the Balance: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5784
Sometimes it feels as though your entire future hinges on an upcoming verdict that will change everything. 4 stories of women left hanging in the balance

By Family First Readers

Family First Inbox
“The conclusions you drew long ago in childhood are now part of the architecture of your brain. They can certainly be dismantled, but only by you”

By Family First Readers

The Conversation Continues
“Alcoholics and other addicts would never be encouraged to just have their substance in moderation, just walk away, or just try harder”

By Family First Readers

A Better You
“It’s true one person can’t save a relationship, but one person can make changes that greatly improve it”

By Family First Contributors

Family Tempo
What happened next is vivid in my mind like a scene from a horror film

By Leorah Hartman

Musings
The migrating birds that make their way over my Jerusalem neighborhood as summer winds down will always remain my favorite

By Risa Rotman

Jolly Solly
“Burst pipe!” he called to his fellow workmen inside.  “Somebody turn off the water mains!”

By R. Atkins

5783: Year in Review
We need to put the genie back into the bottle, to calm the secular public’s fear that we’re going to force our will on them

By Rabbi Yitzchok Pindrus

Story Time
Shabsi lifted his head from the ground and saw something rising from the dirt. So tall, so powerful

By Y. Bromberg

For the Record
Ultimately the Greenberg Rosh Hashanah story reflects the tragic course of American Jewish assimilation

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Recipes
This elegant side dish can potentially be two dishes if you take the extra rice and serve it at a different meal. Trust me — no one except you and I will know it made a previous a ...

By Rivky Kleiman

Second Thoughts
When all seems lost and we are convinced that there is no turning back, He offers us a precious gift, which He calls Teshuvah

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman