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Magazine Feature
Rav Sholom Schwadron’s unrehearsed prayers became a staple of repentance

By Yisroel Besser

Magazine Feature
Six popular speakers put down their mics to share what it’s really like on the job, beyond the spotlight and podium

By C.S. Teitelbaum

Magazine Feature
Son and current rosh yeshivah, Rav Simcha Scheinberg, reveals the secret of his father’s drive and passion

By Rabbi Eliyahu Gut and Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galinsky

Profiles
Drawing upon his journey from Dharamshala to Kiryat Sefer, popular educator Rabbi Yitzchak Fanger has a message about life’s meaning that speaks to a new generation of searchers

By Gedalia Guttentag

Magazine Feature
When Rav Yaakov Shlomo Friedman wound up in a DP camp faced with halachic scenarios more complex than he could ever imagine, he organized a beis din and helped survivors reestabli ...

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Year in Review
Scientists say the world’s magnetic field is seriously off-kilter — and I believe them. Let’s hope that 5780 is the year the world rights itself

By Gershon Burstyn

Year in Review
Yet when the scales are balanced and the book of judgment closes on the year 5779, the Jewish People are thriving

By Binyamin Rose

Year in Review
The US president wakes up to the fact that Bibi’s no longer a winner — and Trump doesn’t like losers

By Omri Nahmias

Point of View
Rebbe Nachman teaches us how we can win a favorable judgment

By Rabbi Moshe Grylak zt"l

50 Reasons

By Ariella Stern

Guestlines
Come a new year, we have to ask ourselves: Is our bucket list for us, or for them?

By Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg

The Road Home
It takes a few days for me to realize something about this new house. Sissika is not here. She didn’t come. We didn’t bring her

By Malka Winner

Shul of My Youth
For some reason my father chose to become a member at Dukes Place, and that was our shul

By Riki Goldstein

Personal Accounts
Twelve writers share the messages they mined from months gone by

By Family First Contributors