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The Power and Danger of Secrets
You are only as sick as your secrets,” I was told during my inpatient stint at McLean psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Mass.

You are only as sick as your secrets,” I was told during my inpatient stint at McLean psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Mass.
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My Cousin Fritz Was Married to a Nazi
Finding out the woman who sat at our dinner table was a Nazi.

Finding out the woman who sat at our dinner table was a Nazi.
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How Genealogy Became the Great Jewish Pastime
“America is a country of immigrants. Most people don’t even know where their grandparents are from. And there’s a lot of family mythology that is not necessarily true.”

“America is a country of immigrants. Most people don’t even know where their grandparents are from. And there’s a lot of family mythology that is not necessarily true.”

Objects such as a family’s table, chairs and beloved artwork are tangible blessings, writes one self-described pack rat, memories that can be stared at, held—and

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Family Matters: When I Was Miri

What is in a name? For one woman, her nickname represents a slowly fading era and a childhood that spanned the worlds of German immigrants

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Family Matters: Good as Gold

by Marvin Friedman

Somehow my father scraped together $250—a fortune in 1948 and the tuition for the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art—and we drove to Philadelphia in

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Family Matters: Such Good Thieves

by Ruth Behar

A unique inheritance bequeaths a sense of strength and belonging to a scholarly descendant of Cuban Jews who came to America. When I was coming

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Family Matters: Security Over Secrecy

by Rahel Musleah

Domestic violence is still a blight on the Jewish community, but women’s groups, social organizations and individuals are creating programs to address the reality.

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