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Family First Feature
How to spot — and stop — a drinking problem

By Barbara Bensoussan

Family First Inbox
“Let’s be gentle with one another. Everyone else is attacking us. We don’t need to attack each other”

By Family First Readers

A Better You
We cannot allow the fear of loss to rob us of the greatest depth and joy that life has to offer

By Family First Contributors

War Diaries
But of course, they didn’t know. They didn’t believe. And they didn’t leave

By Yael Zoldan

War Diaries
“If it’s a mitzvah to build a succah,” he asks, “then why didn’t Hashem stop the wind from knocking it down?”

By Shalva Muschel

To Be Honest
   “Boundaries” have become a catchall term for just saying no whenever we feel like it

By Perel Gold

Family Tempo
In the bitterness of the Urals, Savta always sought sweetness

By Faigy Horowitz

Musings
A Plea for Single People to Reclaim Their Agency

By Esther Shemtov

Halls of Power
After the DC rally, what’s next?

By Maury Litwack

In Sights
Mortified, I realized I had recorded this entire, very personal conversation

By Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg

Second Thoughts
Never Again these days has a very hollow ring to it. Never Again has become Once Again

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Outlook
Israel’s entry into Gaza has nothing to do with exacting revenge. It is an act of self-defense, pure and simple

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Counterpoint
Acknowledging the limits of hasbarah, easing up on the desperation and our quest to convince the moral-equivalencers

By Aron Yitzchok Grossman

Family First Serial
 “I mean, this is my organization! I’m the one who started it!” She grimaced. “Does that sound petty?”

By Gila Arnold