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Family First Feature
When your siblings are ten, fifteen, or more years older (or younger) than you, it’s an entirely different experience

By Rivki Silver

A Better You
As a healthy, functioning adult, the only approval you truly need is yours and Hashem’s

By Family First Contributors

Family First Inbox
“Being honest if you have gone [to therapy] is imperative to finding the best seminary for you”

By Family First Readers

On your Mark
Chaplain and grief counselor Tamar Stein brings hope and compassion to patients and families, easing the fear of final transitions

By Shoshana Gross

Living Room
A fitness routine is incomplete without strength training

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Living Room
 Family First reader Sara Leah Rosenfeld shares how she simultaneously cooks for kids and adults

By Riki Goldstein

The Next Chapter
Like a geological formation, there are layers and layers of sentimental strata among my clutter

By Ahava Ehrenpreis

Musings
“Mmm. . .” he said, picking up his glass of water and taking a long swallow. “That’s really good”

By Lori Holzman Schwartz

The Moment
Rabbi Trenk’s house isn’t just “the Rabbi’s home.” His home has become a celebrated bastion of hachnassas orchim

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Shul with a View
Ephraim’s weekly presence at my Shabbos table did much more for me than it did for him

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

Guestlines
“I am writing to you from the Kessler Rehabilitation Institute in West Orange, New Jersey”

By Rabbi Paysach Krohn

Diary Serial
“Maybe you need to change the profile of the men you date,” I suggested gently

By Rachel Burnham with Bassi Gruen

LifeTakes
The referral says that Avigail is a nightmare to teach and upsets almost anyone who crosses her path

By Tzivia Shain

Elevate
If you’re running a kiruv shabbaton, Havdalah is the secret weapon to fire up neshamos

By Family First Contributors