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A Better You
People who are neurodivergent have often learned from a very young age to hide themselves. But their relentless efforts to act and behave neurotypically can come at a heavy cost.

By Family First Contributors

Elevate
You don’t make a penny more or less than you’re supposed to. We hear this all the time, and yet and yet — it’s daunting to live by this knowledge.

By Family First Contributors

Encounters
A tiny shadow of a little girl. Standing. On the outside of the open windowpane. On the sill as narrow as a tea biscuit.

By Leah Wachsler

Family First Serial
There were no tears running down her cheeks, but she felt a cloud of sadness blocking the radiant San Francisco sunshine.

By Miriam Zakon

Family Reflections
Words have a huge impact on our emotional state

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Family First Feature
Play therapy. For Adults. While the image of a middle-aged woman playing with dolls may raise your eyebrows, some women say it changed their lives.

By Leah Wachsler

Family First Serial
“I see what Ta doesn’t, that there are a lot of very unhappy staff members right now, and he’s going to have a serious problem on his hands if something doesn’t get done soon.”

By Gila Arnold

Family First Inbox
I think one of the hardest nisyonos is watching your child struggle

By Family First Readers

Outlook
One highly distressing aspect of Sinwar’s manipulation is the American role. America had full knowledge of Hamas’s revisions but never informed Israel.

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Magazine Feature
Rabbi Yehuda Levin’s life was replete with vast prosperity, but also challenging setbacks. Yet he left us with timeless lessons in how to smile through it all

By Yitzchok Schwarz

This Way That Way
Peppery and slightly spicy with a punch of a crunch, radishes have become everyone’s favorite addition to salads

By Family Table Contributors

Worldview
$3 billion in annual military support proved too tempting a freebie for Israeli politicians to speak up about, so they kept quiet 

By Gedalia Guttentag

Recipes
Make these super-fancy-yet-easy-to-make cheesecake fruit squares with store-bought puff pastry topped with a homemade cheesecake layer and some sliced fruit

By Kosher.com

Shul with a View
When he looks back to that day, there is only one memory he cherishes: the memory of his father.

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman