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Family First Feature
Everything you wanted to know about making a bar mitzvah (and some things you didn't)

By Rivki Silver

Family First Feature
Two women share their take on making a bar mitzvah

By Kayla Berman and Tova Grossman

Family First Inbox
“I imagine many readers were baffled by Miriam’s story, the woman who purchased an American Girl doll”

By Family First Readers

A Better You
Remind yourself that the unexceptional is the norm

By Family First Contributors

On your Mark
Yehudis Sherman makes sure that no divorced woman faces life alone

By Yehudis Braunstein

Diary Serial
Competent and efficient, Nadia's bedside manner is definitely lacking

By Shoshana Gross

Musings
“Getting a drink is okay. The fact that you are walking up the stairs wearing roller blades is what’s scaring me”

By Peshie Needleman

Windows
That was where I learned to correctly pronounce so many of the then unfamiliar words that are now my buddies

By Sarah Moses Spero

Recipes
Classic New York-style cheesecake meets fudgy, decadent brownie. The result is nothing short of spectacular

By Rivky Kleiman

Magazine Feature
Jews in the American Civil War

By Pearl Herzog

Dispatch
What is representative of America today — the hate spewing on campuses and elsewhere, or the unsolicited, heartfelt comments I receive? 

By Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Eye on Europe
Keir Starmer looks set to enter Downing Street — is his party de-Corbynized?

By Y. Davis

Shul with a View
Since when does a rebbi moonlight as a haberdasher?

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

EndNote
A veritable lesson in not letting your G-d-given gifts get bogged down by the limitations you can’t control

By Tzvi Askal