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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.
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.”

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.

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.