Family

MARRIAGE

Major Marriage Challenges

We often have the tendency to look for the “tzuris.” There certainly are enough problems to go around, and because…

PARENTING

Making a Meaningful Bat Mitzvah

Bruria delivering a devar Torah at her Bat Mitzvah. Photos courtesy of the Bleich family Good frum girls don’t make…

ECONOMICS

The Financial Crisis Hits Home: Money-Saving Tips for the Orthodox Family

Create a Home-Spending Plan • Create a detailed analysis or spreadsheet to analyze your expenses. Classify each expense as either…

FAMILY

A Private Conversation with My Kaddish

Written on the last day of aveilut for my father, Jerry J. Savitsky (Yoel ben Avraham), who passed away on…

PARENTING

Helping Kids Heal: When Your Child Needs Psychotherapy

Whether your child is six or sixteen, it’s important to help him understand the underlying reasons he will be seeing…

OPINION

Rising to the Occasion: Reviving the Practice of Standing up to Honor One’s Parents

“In the period that will precede the coming of Mashiach . . . youth will blanch the faces of elders;…

FAMILY

Speaking about the Unspeakable

How will our children learn about the evils of drug use if we don’t talk to them about it?

FAMILY

Resource List

This list of resources, while far from comprehensive, includes some of the major US-based organizations dedicated to assisting at-risk youth…

OPINION

Blended Love

Serena is the very first one to step into the auditorium, her steps timed to the beat of “Pomp and…

MARRIAGE

An Unintentional Intermarriage

A strange thing happened on the way to my becoming a ba’alat teshuvah: I discovered I was not a Jew.…

FAMILY

“Pulled up Short” by Shmuel

My son, Shmuel, was born four years ago on the tenth of Cheshvan. My wife woke me at 3 A.M.;…

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