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LifeLines
In those days, Jews were Jews, and I, the grandson of the Rosh Yeshivah, played ball with Bernie, the kid whose father worked on Shabbos

By C. Saphir

Impressions
“Learn three masechtos, be’al peh,” the rosh yeshivah said. “Kiddushin, Gittin, Nedarim. Then you will have a bechinah. If you succeed, you’ll earn 20 litu and a new suit”
Shared Space
Now she knew why she wasn’t feeling the peace that sleeping Sari and grateful Ariella and the sunny living room should have given her

By Dov Haller

Normal Like Me
“He said more than that: He said that G-d is everything that happens to us and everything that will happen. He is the blood that flows in our veins”

By Ruti Kepler

Outlook
How can we maximize the potential of Rosh Hashanah?

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Text Messages
A move toward Him necessarily means a move away

By Eytan Kobre

Guestlines
What do the multiple books of life mean to us?

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Magazine Feature
If you walk into a Pinsk-Karliner tish looking for the Rebbe, he’s the one sitting in the middle of the table among the chassidim, leaving rebbishe hanhagos at the door

By Aryeh Ehrlich

Fundamentals
Why isn’t our longing for connection more evident?

By Rebbetzin Suri Gibber

Year in Review
This was the year objectivity vanished, and knee-jerk reactions prevail

By Binyamin Rose

A Few Minutes With
Ben Shapiro updates Mishpacha about the direction his career, the country, and political discourse have taken since we spoke to him last in 2013

By Tzippy Yarom

Year in Review
This was the year of the vanishing middle

By Gedalia Guttentag

Year in Review

By Gershon Burstyn

Family First Editor's Letter
Rosh Hashanah, a Yom Tov measured not by how much time we spend in shul, but by how much we allowed Hashem’s light to shine in us and through us

By Bassi Gruen