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A Better You
The Art of Boredom
Having nothing to do is summer’s hidden gift

By Family First Contributors

Family First Feature
Locked Out of Learning 
Four perspectives on the struggle to learn to read

By Family First Contributors

Family First Inbox
Family First Inbox: Issue 945
“This highlights a deeper issue in our community: We tend to be too trusting — gullible, even”

By Family First Readers

Living Room
Inside Out: Silky Smooth       
Best tips to take care of your face and skin without causing irritation or damage

By Lea Pavel

Living Room
Dinner Diaries: Dips Ahoy! 
Kayla Soroka shows us how she uplifts kid-friendly food to give it more pizzaz. The secret’s in the dips

By Riki Goldstein

Great Reads: Fiction
Plum
I brought Shira into the boutique. Would she really sabotage me?

By Bashie Lisker

LifeTakes
Pre-Date Meditations
A view from the other side of the mechitzah

By Eli Hoffmann

Parshah
Parshas Naso: 5785
The idea of a person voluntarily relinquishing physical pleasure runs counter to societal norms

By Faigy Peritzman

Beltway Brief
Flipping Tables at the G7  
In Trump’s first term, he rejected the rules. In his second, he’s rewriting the script

By Jake Turx

True Account
On the Winning Team
While my journey had been inward-focused, I now viscerally felt what the support of others could do

By Rivka Streicher

EndNote
Mood Mix with Moshe Groner   
“People used to view a kumzitz as two hours of slow, heartfelt singing, but that’s changing”

By Riki Goldstein

Guestlines
The Magical Shabbos Table
Shabbos meals don’t have to be impressive. They just have to be real. And if they’re real — they’ll be magical

By Rabbi Aryeh Kerzner

Reflections
Slay the Self-Talk
Train that inner critic to give you compliments

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

Magazine Feature
Finders Keepers
Nathan Raab scours the world for lost pieces of history — and sells to the highest bidder

By Rafael Hoffman