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Family First Feature
Stir the Pot     
Hadassa Swerds spills the secrets of personal chefs

By Hadassa Swerds

Family First Feature
Is Yente the Matchmaker No Longer Enough?  
Do dating coaches make shidduchim — or break them?

By Penina Steinbruch

Fiction
Yours, Mine, and Ours  
My husband is helping his parents — with my money

By Shaina Kovitz

A Better You
A Plan for Chol Hamoed
A carousel of meals, family time, Chol Hamoed excitement, differently paced schedules, late bedtimes, and traveling

By Family First Contributors

Family First Inbox
Family First Inbox: Issue 915
“Should we be encouraging financially clueless newlyweds to spend money they don’t have on such a huge investment?”

By Family First Readers

Musings
Just Desserts
I blame my mother. She hated making dessert, too — and so she didn’t

By Esther Kurtz

Windows
Permission to Rejoice 
You know what, maybe I am crying because of all this

By Dassa Landeur

Family Tempo
The Girl in the Mirror   
Was I the confident, popular principal — or Lulu the reject?

By Bashie Lisker

Parshah
Succos: No One Else
The only power a suicide bomber or terrorist has over us is a result of our granting them significance

By Faigy Peritzman

The Ring of Healing: Succos 5785
The Brother I Never Knew: Special Delivery  
So much more binds us than separates

By Riki Goldstein

Two Cents
The Complete Guide to Over-Apologizing, Under-Apologizing, and Re-Apologizing   
Unsolicited advice from people with no qualifications but many opinions

By Michali Naiman and Chana Fishman

Magazine Feature
In Full Swing     
A swing through Pennsylvania, this most critical swing state, reveals what makes it such a focus of both campaigns

By Rafael Hoffman

Family First Feature
The Guru Will See You Now    
Why are we losing faith in conventional medicine?

By Barbara Bensoussan

Spotlight
Man on a Mission   
Meet the young entrepreneurs who’ve made it their business to ratchet up your Yom Tov

By Yosef Herz