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Family First Feature
When your siblings are ten, fifteen, or more years older (or younger) than you, it’s an entirely different experience

By Rivki Silver

A Better You
As a healthy, functioning adult, the only approval you truly need is yours and Hashem’s

By Family First Contributors

Family First Inbox
“Being honest if you have gone [to therapy] is imperative to finding the best seminary for you”

By Family First Readers

On your Mark
Chaplain and grief counselor Tamar Stein brings hope and compassion to patients and families, easing the fear of final transitions

By Shoshana Gross

Living Room
A fitness routine is incomplete without strength training

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Living Room
 Family First reader Sara Leah Rosenfeld shares how she simultaneously cooks for kids and adults

By Ruthie Levy

The Next Chapter
Like a geological formation, there are layers and layers of sentimental strata among my clutter

By Ahava Ehrenpreis

Musings
“Mmm. . .” he said, picking up his glass of water and taking a long swallow. “That’s really good”

By Lori Holzman Schwartz

Cut ‘n Paste
“Do you know any big rabbis through your charity who could give me a brachah?”

By Jordan Odinsky

Serial
Perri hadn’t been wrong; Shloimy was struggling in shiur. And his maggid shiur clearly didn’t have much compassion for him

By Blimi Rabinowitz

Standing Ovation
One city has been doing a major concert for 50 years straight

By Dovid Nachman Golding

Worldview
The Hamas pogrom made two things clear: Israel was in the fight of its life against Iran, and Bibi’s legacy was in tatters

By Gedalia Guttentag

Tempo: Second Guessing
All I can think is... Should I have done  anything differently?

By Ariella Schiller

Family First Serial
Leebie pushed open the garage door — and nearly hit Amram in the face

By Esty Heller