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To Be Honest
Has our Botox generation lost the art of aging gracefully?

By Kayla Markowitz

Family Tempo
Three generations after the Holocaust, my family still hadn’t healed

By Chaya Liba Aarons

War Diaries
We may be crazy for living here—but we’re not wrong

By Yonah Levin Chatzinoff

Family Connections
It’s awkward and difficult to inspire others to get help for their emotional and behavioral problems

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

A Better You
There’s a fundamental difference between justifying and explaining

By Family First Contributors

Family First Inbox
“Adam and Chava were the happiest couple because they didn’t have anyone to compare each other to!”

By Family First Readers

Musings
Back to Muskan. She felt awful, just awful, that I had received a dented Tjena

By Peshie Needleman

Family First Serial
Gabe doesn’t say, If I spend another minute in this house watching you two ignore each other I might burst

By Bashie Lisker

EndNote
Rabbi Shloime Taussig’s second EP collection, 5 KOLOS #2, hit the shelves and the streaming platforms on Rosh Chodesh Elul

By Riki Goldstein

Diary Serial
I’d planned to do it. I really had. Every evening, I’d promised myself to sit down and do it. But something always distracted me

By Rochie Bloomberg

Living Room
  Family First reader Esti Meyers shares her real-world meal strategies

By Esti Meyers

Halachah
“In most cases, the contractor is the one responsible for anything that goes wrong with the home as long as it is under warranty”

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

The Moment
Rabbi E. was flabbergasted. He hadn’t known this student wasn’t keeping Shabbos regularly

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

For the Record
Rabbi Odesser never explained why he had kept the petek secret for so many decades

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer