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Theme Section: Open Secrets
So many of us carry secrets — some heavy, some light. Some that mean nothing, and some that change everything. Six writers tell stories of secrets kept, shared, and revealed

By Family First Contributors

On your Mark
Shani Greenfield makes shidduchim — the right wig for the right woman 

By Chani Kahan

Sidekick
A tree grows in Brooklyn. And that’s the last thing you need

By Esty Heller

Family First Inbox
“I’m confused about how filling up on materialism as a child would help someone gain strength to face challenges”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
I was an opera singer. Then Torah helped me find my voice

By Chani Leiser

A Better You
“Helpful” does not mean inherently good or bad

By Family First Contributors

Windows
No destinations penciled in. No times jotted down. No deadlines marked. Nothing

By Hadassah Steinman

Family First Serial
“Next time your Papa gets angry. Next time, you must use your mind to build a wall around yourself, one brick and another and another"

By Leah Gebber

From My Table
Fries are the most popular comfort food in my house. Here, we recreated a shawarma fries dish we ordered recently, except we used steak instead of shawarma. Try it either way!

By Chanie Nayman

Jr. Fiction
Smadar looks at Margalit. “What should I write? The Jewish story? The history of the Jews?”

By Malka Winner

Story Time
Sack on his back, forbidden to taste hot food even once during the three years of exile, Reb Meir set off into the unknown

By Y. Bromberg

Washington Wrap
McCarthy's mauling bodes ill for the GOP

By Omri Nahmias

Works for Me
“I’m known as a creative person, and am interested in marketing, but also think it might be more responsible to consider law”

By Shaina Keren

Inbox
“I’m starting to get tired of society viewing introversion as a disadvantage, while extroversion is looked at as praiseworthy”

By Mishpacha Readers