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Fiction: A Few Small Stones
Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.

Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.
Space, Time, Gravity and Zionism
Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

The bride and groom stood in front of a camera in the chapel at Ansche Chesed. Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky stared back at them from a laptop screen.

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Jewish College Students Are Uniting in Zoom University Hillel

by Deanna Schwartz | JTA

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced nearly every college to transition to online courses and, in most cases, move students out of their dorms.

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Being the Child of Survivors Prepared Me for This Pandemic

by Sara Nuss-Galles | JTA

This pandemic is my first realistic encounter with the hyper-wariness my parents harbored and I long struggled to squelch inside me.

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Passover in a Pandemic: Solo Seders and Broken Traditions

by Ben Sales | JTA

Families are scrapping traditions as Passover approaches, relying on Zoom get-togethers and solo or small-scale meals in the face of the pandemic.

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Purim Reminds Me of All We Haven’t Learned After #MeToo

by Sheila Katz | JTA

In the era of #MeToo, should we now question why Mordechai is often extolled as the Purim story’s hero rather than an enabler of abuse?

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Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi Is Shifting the Conversation on Disabilities

by Hilary Danailova

Laszlo Mizrahi runs RespectAbility, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting stigma and advancing opportunities for—and with—people with disabilities.