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Family
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.
Family
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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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