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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.”

Remembrance of Things Past in Kolkata

by Rahel Musleah

by Rahel Musleah

Kolkata, the Indian city I left for America as a child of 6, has bewitched me like a distant lover for much of my life.

Big Sonia: A Grandmother-Granddaughter Conversation

Documentarian Leah Warshawski captures the story and impact of her larger-than-life grandmother in the film Big Sonia.

Loving Josh: Dealing with a Son’s Depression

We expect our children to follow a set path—college, career, family. How should parents react when that path is derailed by depression?

A Diaspora View of Israel: It Is Real—Isn’t It?

by Shelley J. Klein

My husband, our two sons—ages 7 and 10—and I are spending a year in Israel. We went from Brooklyn to Bavli, a neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

The Awful Truth

by Sasha Tamarkin

It is good to speak of my son in unremarkable words. I look back to when he was 16, and I had to tell him a difficult truth.

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.