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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.”

When DNA Reveals Hidden Truths: An Online Event

Hadassah Magazine Discussion Group presents: How Genealogy Became the Great Jewish Pastime, with Executive Editor Lisa Hostein, featuring Dani Shapiro, Jennifer Mendelsohn and Libby Copeland.

Mothers and Their Teen Daughters, in Conversation

by Elizabeth Mandel

Interviews between six teen editors at jGirls Magazine and their mothers reveal the changing reality of what it means to be a young Jewish woman today.

Empowering Their Daughters to Change the World

Several mothers look to their daughters to take up the fight for equality and expanding economic and political power for women.

Pride and Hope in Their Daughters’ Generation

In this series of interviews, mothers voice their hope for a brighter future derived from their daughters' activism and sense of justice.

Farmer Daughter/Uptown Mother

by Judy Seldin-Cohen

Generations of daughters have charted their own path, pursuing lives that are strikingly different from those of their mothers.

Learning to Play Mah Jongg With My Mother-in-Law’s Set

by Stacy Gallop

Today, I've become a fourth player, and playing mah jongg brings me closer to the memory of my mother and mother-in-law.

Inheriting Family Heirlooms, and the Stories of Migration They Tell

by Hannah S. Pressman

When we leave home, we leave things behind. After that, we are in the import-export business of our own memories and family heirlooms.

Why I Let My Daughter Get a Nose Job

by Lisa Tognola | JTA

My daughter told me couldn’t stand her nose, that she hated getting teased about it and wanted to fix it before she started college.