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The Un-Comfort Zone
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Shoes of the Other
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Yiddishe Kopp
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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An Affinity to Infinity
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Royalty and Royalty
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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
Dinner Diaries
Dinner Diaries Goes Vegan 
Natanya Namoff’s plant-based menu for the whole family
Riki Goldstein
Dinner Diaries
Dinner Diaries: The Very Varied Chicken Dinner 
Raizy Gerwitz shows us how to serve up chicken but keep it interesting
Riki Goldstein
Match Quest
Questioning the "Dating Rules"
Rules are a lot like clichés. They came about for a reason. And like clichés, sometimes they apply and sometimes they don’t
Sara Eisemann
Match Quest
"We Have to Skip Our Oldest Daughter… but How?!"
I discovered two significant patterns regarding the women who were “skipped”
Sara Eisemann
Family Living
Motherboard: Time Out
How to make the best of vacation and days off with your kids
Mindel Kassorla
Plant by a window
Family Living
Houseplants for Beginners
Keeping houseplants is not a talent but a skill that can be learned
Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz
Voices for Eternity
Esther HaMalka: Robed in Royalty
Esther was prepared to sacrifice everything—her very life and even her portion in Olam HaBa—for the sake of the people
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
Voices for Eternity
Chuldah Haneviah: Heartbeats of Hope
The tefillos of men are carried upward through the prayers and tears of the women
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
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Notes on the Shofar Notes

There is no single answer to the mystery of the shofar. But let us examine one approach

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The Many Layers of Baruch Atah

It is the most widely used — and also the most widely mangled and least understood brachah

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Profane: More Than Cursing

It is precisely in such times — when words are cheap — that  it is good to remember that words are sacred

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Bandits and Bishop

Why would the bishop be wearing all this jewelry on his person while delivering his sermon?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The Last Itinerary

President Biden visited his limousine, his luxurious hotel rooms, the opulent banquet halls, but in his cocoon, he never experienced Israel. No one asked me, but if I were managing his trip, I would prepare a different itinerary

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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AUTONO—ME

In today’s society no one has ever learned to say “no” to one’s wants and desires

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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