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Family First Feature
Women are returning to the classroom decades after leaving it, and this time, the learning is leading them to the ultimate goal: a rich relationship with their Creator and themsel ...

By Malkie Schulman

Therapy Toolbox
“I know what the feeling is. It’s…” Batsheva took a deep, shuddering breath. “It’s like I can’t stand being in my own skin….”

By Abby Delouya B.A, B.Ed, MFT

Family Diary
We’re all used to hearing  words can heal or hurt, build, or destroy. I was watching that play out in real time

By Shani Leiman

Musings
Babi was out. Grandma was also out. Bubby for sure was out. Bubby was the stuff of tales from the alte heim

By Miriam Klein Adelman

Windows
Was I emotionally ready to move on, to actually remove my husband’s books and papers that hadn’t been touched in years?

By Ahava Ehrenpreis

Family Tempo
Yes, a convert is still allowed to love his or her biological parents, something many Jews don’t realize

By Shira Yehudit Djalilmand

Dream On
"Yes, I got divorced recently. So what? Lots of people do, and their daughters don’t end up in the hospital from it”

By Gila Arnold

Follow Me
There was a change in their lives, true, but how many people would feel blessed to have to deal with this kind of problem?

By Esty Heller

Lonely at the Top
The leadership vacuum that should be worrying us all. Three takes on a troubling trend

By Alexandra Fleksher

Step It Up
When you focus on the now, the future becomes possible

By Mindel Kassorla

Magazine Feature
Rav Reuven Leuchter unravels the secrets of Nefesh HaChaim

By Rabbi Eliyahu Gut and Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galinsky

The Soapbox
It’s time for a communal and individual conversation, because the stakes of not voting are too high

By Maury Litwack

Metro & Beyond
Boston, along with nearly every other major US city, has seen a rise in anti-Semitism since the Gaza conflict last month

By Yochonon Donn

Summer Job
I breathe in and realize that the tension has vanished, gone with the warm night breeze and the memories

By Rochel Samet