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Family First Feature
Critter Chronicles
How can you send the buggy nuisances packing?

By Family First Editors and Writers

Brain
Great Reads: Real Life
Pulses of Hope
The depression felt like quicksand I’d never escape from. I kept sinking deeper and deeper

By Miriam Bloch

LifeTakes
Lag B’omer for Litvaks
Even the Litvak in me can admit my neshamah was touched

By Esther Kurtz

A Better You
A Better You
Water On a Rock
There’s a powerful chinuch message in the story of Rabi Akiva

By Family First Contributors

Connections
Connections
Performance Pressure
How can I stop worrying I’m going to fail at my new job?

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe M. Ed. C. Psych.

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Deal or No Deal
Are you a Lag B’omer person?
"It’s a very powerful day and people are zocheh to tremendous nissim if they channel it"
Chair
Expert Eye
Upholstery Check
How to choose fabrics for your home

By Zisi Naimark

Plant by a window
Family Living
Houseplants for Beginners
Keeping houseplants is not a talent but a skill that can be learned

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

For the Record
Signed in Knyszyn, Sealed in Eternity
"A forgotten postcard from 1935 Knyszyn helped shape the future of Torah in America"

By Dovid Safier and Yehuda Geberer

EndNote
Offstage Pedestal
They’ve been blessed with amazing talent, yet standing in front of a sea of excited, adoring fans, they wonder how much else, besides the music, they’re expected to give.

By Riki Goldstein

Sefiras Ha'Omer
Fundamentals
A Tale of Two Voices
On Pesach, Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim. During Sefiras Ha’omer, we take Mitzrayim out of us

By Miriam Kosman

The Current
Unintended Targets
"Trump’s tariff wars hit e-commerce hard — and sellers are scrambling to adapt"

By Rafael Hoffman

Double Take
Dream Team
When Torah learning turns into a tug-of-war — whose seder comes first?

By Rochel Samet

Magazine Feature
Still Playing Our Song
Five decades of children’s choirs, five decades of composition, and Chaim Banet is still in the studio

By Shlomi Gil