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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

Full ‘n Free
With Shavuos coming up, now is the perfect time to experiment with this low-lactose, high-protein ingredient

By Beth Warren

Diary Serial
Every family simchah throws my careful plans into a wild tailspin

By Shoshana Gross

War Diaries
Then Motzaei Shabbos comes. The Internet tells me a hundred explosive-laden drones are already on their way to Israel. Even my husband is a little nervous.

By Raizy Jotkowitz

A Few Minutes With
“There Is No Right to Engage in Anti-Semitic Speech”

By Sandy Eller

Cut ‘n Paste
It was a simple comment. But those few short words opened a doorway to the greatness that lay within.

By Rabbi Chaim Heinemann

Guestlines
Whenever anyone, adult or child, suffers a trauma, anything that reminds him of the trauma will serve as a trigger that causes the person to re-experience the same fear, helplessn ...

By Dr Meir Wikler