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Family First Feature
Four women share how they channeled their pain into a passion to help others

By Elisheva Luger

SisterSchmooze
However the BFF friendship starts, it’s a relationship to be treasured 

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

Family Diary
How could she stand next to this guy for the rest of her life? How could she marry him, after everyone she’d passed up?

By Shani Leiman

Life Lab
Keeping house is like building Pisom and Ramses; every day your work is undone and you have to start from scratch

By Esther Kurtz

On your Mark
Peninah Pick runs the Down the Aisle Kallah gemach, where she collects people’s surplus gifts and donates them to kallahs

By Miriam Milstein

Windows
I got into my car and started to sob. So much more than a glass had been shattered the night I stood under the chuppah

By Yehudis Lieber

Rocking Horse
“A violent man is roaming the old ghetto, looking for poor families, persuading them to send away their daughters. Does that not sound suspicious?”

By Leah Gebber

Outside Chance
How funny and sad is it that I’m giving parenting advice and support to Shifra when I’m kinda muddling through it myself right now?

By Esther Kurtz

Bakeaways
Summertime is birthday season in our family, and nothing says “Birthdays are special” like home-baked treats! This cupcake is so simple, it requires just two bowls and a spoon, an ...

By Faigy Grossman

Guestlines
"We should go to a din Torah," I said, "to learn how the Torah wants us to resolve our conflict"

By Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger

Jr. Feature
Some of our readers attended camp; others stayed home or devised creative solutions to the Socially Distanced Summer Challenge

By Leeba Leichtman

Story Time
   “B-but honorable Rebbe, i-it’s not so simple! They tried to strangle me!”

By Y. Bromberg

Out of Step
No. No, I’m not doing this. I’m not being all “lost my old best friend but made a new one on my way out of our friendship.” No way

By Ariella Schiller

LifeTakes
What was the source of this cared-for feeling I got a whiff of every time I opened the pepper?

By Peshie Needleman