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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

Dispatch
Avraham looked and did not turn into a pillar of salt. She should not have looked. He did look. And he survived

By Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

The Next Chapter
Akiva had been given this siddur by his rebbi in fifth grade, and he’d carried it in his tefillin bag

By Ahava Ehrenpreis

LifeTakes
“They say you talk a lot.” Ouch. I thought I was just being friendly

By Mindel Kassorla

Election 2024
Even a wiser and more seasoned Donald Trump will find governing to be just as challenging, if not more so, the second time around

By Binyamin Rose

Magazine Feature
Yaakov Hillel’s life and death became a channel for parents and children to heal

By Gedalia Guttentag and Shlomi Gil

Guestlines
I understand the counterargument. October 7 is not really a date, rather it’s the universally accepted name for an event

By Rabbi Menachem Nissel