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Family First Feature
Rachel Atkins, founder of the Bye Bye Bullying project, shares her hands-on experience with tackling bullying in the classroom

By Rachel Atkins

SisterSchmooze
Please join us as we share our words of war: our mother’s words, still remembered and inspiring us, 80 years later

By Marcia Stark Meth / Emmy Leah Stark Zitter / Miriam Stark Zakon

Family First Inbox
“Young couples who host ‘couple meals’ where friends arrive with truckloads of alcohol, wake up”

By Family First Readers

A Better You
The great thing about breathing is that it’s discreet, can be done anywhere, and doesn’t require any equipment

By Family First Contributors

War Diaries
Just to let you know we’re okay. I mean, as okay as we can be right now

By Anonymous

War Diaries
“This is why I joined the army. This is why we went through all of those miluim over the years”

By Miriam Burstein

Family Tempo
I wonder what Chaim will say to an invitation to talk, which card he’s going to play, and then I feel nauseous with the guilt

By Rachel Newton

Musings
“Okay, let’s start. At what point did you remove the scissor ban?”

By Hadassa Swerds

On Site
4,000 years later, the Dead Sea is facing another disaster

By Chananel Shapiro

For the Record

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

EndNote
“Shir Lamaalos (Esa einai… ezri mei’im Hashem). It’s a song of longing, and also one of hope”

By Riki Goldstein

Connect Four
When should we yearn for the Geulah? Right now. Because it is surely coming soon

By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Family First Serial
He looked at his mother’s eyes, and the laughter died in his throat. Where had he seen that look before?

By Miriam Zakon

LifeTakes
After a five-hour surgery to remove seven millimeters of bone from his mouth, my son’s jaw had been wired tightly shut

By Penina Steinbruch