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Family
From Generation to Generation
In a collaboration between jGirls Magazine and Hadassah Magazine, six mother-daughter pairs unpack their dreams and fears, similarities and differences, untold stories and the impact of Judaism on their lives.

In a series of interviews, six mother-daughter pairs unpack their dreams and fears, and the impact of Judaism on their lives.
Physical Inheritance
Despite our era’s embrace of Marie Kondo and the new religion of decluttering, an argument can still be made for the power of physical items to convey a sense of places and people left behind.

Despite our era’s embrace of Marie Kondo and decluttering, an argument can still be made for the power of physical items to convey a sense of places and people left behind.
Family
The Awful Truth
A mother has to tell the awful truth about a diagnosis of cancer to her teenage son.

A mother has to tell the awful truth about a diagnosis of cancer to her teenage son.
Family
An Unvirtual Day
Turn off that device, shut down the computer, log out of your email, it is time for a day of rest from the constant distractions of modern technology.

Turn off that device and shut down the computer, it is time for a day of rest from the distractions of modern technology.

An Unvirtual Day

by Gershom Gorenberg

I was not just stir-crazy but screen-crazy. I work on two computer screens and then there is my Kindle. But on Shabbat my screens go dark.

Under the Huppa Again

by Deborah Fineblum Schabb

In some ways, when a second-time-around groom stomps down on the glass after the huppa at his wedding, that glass is already in shards.

Being Jewish
Family

by Rahel Musleah

Communities across the United States are devising different means of helping people find their place in their synagogue.

The Blessing of Comic Relief

by Nancy Kelton

My niece through marriage died two years ago at age 40. We sat shiva at her brother’s house in Needham, Massachusetts.

by Judith Haberman Forman

by Judith Haberman Forman

I’m new at this. Well, not new at Israeli folk dancing but, after 40 years, I’m rusty. What is new for me is dancing at

Good Connection: Lessons from a Holocaust Survivor

I am sitting in the corner of the couch, and Fania Lavi is facing me in her wheelchair in her small apartment at an old-age home in Jerusalem.

Breasts and Blessings

by Deborah Fineblum Schabb

I just got a call from my health insurance company informing me that it was time for a mammogram. “I really don’t need one,” I

Being Jewish
Family

Field, and Chant, of Dreams

by Joshua Henkin

In the fall of 1972, when I was starting the third grade, I moved to London with my parents and my brothers for my father’s