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I Feel Guilty for Being Grateful on My Friend’s Cheshbon!

Shoshana Itzkowitz

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“Should Women Be Schmoozing about Their Shalom Bayis?”

Shoshana Itzkowitz

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Is It My Business if She Uses My Computer behind Her Husband’s Back?

Shoshana Itzkowitz

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Are We Coworkers or Friends?

Shoshana Itzkowitz

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Reduced to Our Income Brackets

Shoshana Itzkowitz

Family First Inbox

Family First Inbox: Issue 985

“Hashem doesn’t judge us on the result — He’s looking, with loving eyes, at the effort”

Family First Readers

Family First Inbox

Family First Inbox: Issue 984

“Every one of us should start every day giving ourselves a standing ovation”

Family First Readers

Family First Editor's Letter

Flashback: Editor's Letter, Issue 788

Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.

Bassi Gruen

Family First Editor's Letter

Family First Editor's Letter: Issue 788

Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.

Bassi Gruen

It Happened at Midnight: Pesach Theme 5783

And It Happened at Midnight

While the world dreams and the stars twinkle, the Creator neither slumbers nor sleeps. Ten stories of midnight miracles, epiphanies, and revelations

Family First Contributors

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782

Part of Something Bigger: Be'er HaTorah, Gateshead

The boys would go home for Pesach and Succos, and the place lost its energy; the town became a shadow of itself

Rivka Streicher

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782

My Yeshivah — Home for Eternity: Shavuos 5782

Can’t I be friends with someone who’s in a very different financial bracket than I am? You asked A close friend and I are in very different financial brackets. We’ve been friends for the longest time, and I can’t really pinpoint when this began to affect our relationship, but lately it’s become a real issue.

Family First Contributors

Why Is This Pesach Different?

Full Carts, Heavy Hearts

“We’re used to huge numbers of deliveries for Pesach; we were prepared for that. We have extra vans. Delivery is not the issue. The issue is getting all those orders together."

Margie Pensak

Why Is This Pesach Different?

Singing to a New Audience

Do you have what it takes to say thank you Hashem when things aren’t going the way you hoped they would?

Yisroel Besser

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Our Parenting Styles Are Impacting Our Friendship

She’s a more permissive parent — and it’s tearing us apart

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

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How can I balance this relationship?

My friend is needy and negative. I don’t want to get sucked in

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

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Friendship Fix: I Married My Best Friend’s Brother

We shared everything — and then I married her brother

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

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“Every Time We Spend Time, I Feel Inadequate”

I don’t judge or view myself against others — except when I interact with Tova

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

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You Asked M y husband and I moved with our family a few years ago from a big city to a smaller, “in-between” type of out-of-town community. It’s in-between in that it’s big enough to have its own frum infrastructure (i.e. we don’t have to send our kids away for quality chinuch), but small enough

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

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Am I The Only Busy Young Mother Who Still Needs Friends?

As parents we hear a lot of “How come we’re the only ones who…” But guess what? You’re not the only ones. It’s normal

By Shoshana Itzkowitz