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Magazine Feature
With Rabbi Joey Haber's unique blend of Sephardi mesorah and a yeshivish education, he gracefully straddles different demographics while promoting life-enhancing messages common t ...

By Barbara Bensoussan

Magazine Feature
Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker can help you retain the Torah you’ve worked so hard to learn

By Dovid Sussman

Standing Ovation
The shul became utterly still, and everyone began to dance in silence around this man and the sefer Torah he clutched so lovingly. There was no singing, no clapping, no noise what ...

By Dovid Nachman Golding

Serial
Eliezer’s temper flares. “Would you drop everything if Yudi had been arrested for arson?” he asks, his words slow and threatening

By Bashie Lisker

Shul with a View
The father realized that his nine-year-old daughter was not robotically mimicking the motions taught to her by her morah. His daughter fully understood every word.

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

Encounters
On the Zoom screen, I could see my mother start to cry. “You were being destroyed, Gershon,” she said softly. “I had to get you out of the situation. I know it hurt you, and I’m s ...

By C. Saphir

The Current
This was not the first attack on Jews in Djerba

By Yaakov Lipszyc

Knesset Channel
Bibi is back to his old self, proving once again that he always has a trick up his sleeve

By Avi Blum, ESQ

Open Mic
It is a puzzle how these boys made it as far as the year in Eretz Israel without their learning difficulties being detected

By Rabbi Nesanel Volvey Rand

A Better You
Our thoughts are incredibly powerful and can play a major role in determining the course of our lives

By Family First Contributors

Family First Inbox
I also hope my children realize my love for them even though I wasn’t perfect

By Family First Readers

Family Diary
Mashiach is coming now, and he’ll make me all better! In a few hours I won’t have ASD anymore

By Tzippi Leibenson

SisterSchmooze
Join us as we renovate an apartment, work in close quarters, and find out a baby’s name — each elevated by its connection to our mother’s excellent words of wisdom

By Marcia Stark Meth / Emmy Leah Stark Zitter / Miriam Stark Zakon

Windows
It doesn’t help that I have an irritating anthropomorphic attitude toward inanimate objects, worried that they will “be sad” to be abandoned and alone in the world

By Lea Pavel