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Family First Feature
 One writer shares her discovery of organic ways to foster creativity in her home

By Rivki Silver

SisterSchmooze
Sometimes there are lessons taught in classrooms that don’t show up on school board curricula

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

Family First Inbox
“My students daven because they love to daven, thanks to Mrs. Nussbaum’s passion for tefillah”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
With so many strikes against him, how would my son find his bashert?

By Rivki Winter

A Better You
“Never in the history of calming down, has anyone ever actually calmed down by being told to calm down” — Unknown

By Family First Contributors

Sidekick
Screen your park acquaintances with these 15 questions, and you’ll be connecting to new friends in no time

By Hadassah Swerds

Windows
Whatever I arrogantly thought I knew, I could never have really understood

By Gila Rand

Family First Serial
How could she? How could she be so cruel? Then again, what else to expect from a woman who has so much?

By Leah Gebber

Text Messages
How can it be that an infinite G-d, Who has no needs, created this world just so that we mortals would give Him honor?

By Eytan Kobre

Counterpoint
Allison Josephs’s piece “Healing from Within” has drawn significant and impassioned feedback. The following is a sampling

By Mishpacha Readers

Flashback
I start to feel the belief again. It feels warm, protective, like I’ve relinquished control

By Naomi Katan

Family Connections
In today’s day and age, psychological help is available in many forms

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Know This
I had clear motor damage and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The doctors told my parents I'd probably never walk

By Rivky Rosenwasser

Magazine Feature
Had he known a book would be written about his life, Reb Yehudah (Yudke) Paley would surely have told the author not to waste his time

By Noam Paley