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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.”

Being Jewish
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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
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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

Being Jewish
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“Control” Alternating with “Delete”

by Renee Ghert-Zand

Lisa Samick was 35 when she watched her younger sister, a new mother, die of metastatic breast cancer. Judah Schiller was 35 when he was

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell

For my 61st birthday, I decided to buy myself a man. I do not mean that I resurrected slavery, nor did I hire a male