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5 Tips for Making a Big Move Easier on Your Kids

Melissa Henriquez

Of all the news a parent could possibly have to tell his or her children, an impending cross-country move is surely toward the bottom on the overall pain scale. Yet here I was, fretting about having… to tell our kids, ages 5 and 8, that the life they know and love is about to change in a major way. For the previous month, my husband and I had been keeping a big secret: his work team was being asked to transfer from our small Midwestern city to the Dallas area this… >> Read More

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Holocaust Survivors and Four Generations of Their Families Recreate Iconic Photograph

Arielle Kaplan

In the heart of the Old Town in Prague, Holocaust survivors and four generations of their families — 250 people, in total — recreated an iconic photograph that was simultaneously chilling and… heartwarming. Nearly 74 years ago, 300 girls and boys were liberated from a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The orphans were flown by the U.K.'s Royal Air Force to Prague, where they took a photo in front of the Jan Hus memorial. After six months in the Czech capital, the children were relocated to Windermere, in… >> Read More

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This Gay Jewish Couple Has Twins, But the Government Only Considers One Kid an American

Jordana Horn

When I was a student, I would always feel a pulsing in my veins when I read or heard about injustice. “How,” I wondered, whether aloud or silently, “could people just sit by and do nothing as… their government did terrible things?” (Actually, I still feel that way, if we’re being honest.) And here we are. We live in an era where we can find out about almost anything in the world with a literal touch of our fingers — and yet, so many of us feel impotent in the face of… >> Read More

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This Jewish Family Is Traveling to Literally Every Single Country

Arielle Kaplan

What would you do to make it into The Guinness Book of World Records? Eat an absurd amount of bagels? Jump rope for days on end? Grow your nails so long that they drag on the floor? Travel to every… single country in the world? The last one might be incredibly expensive and time-consuming, but it’s exactly what one Jewish family intends on doing. Justin Zackham, a screenwriter who literally coined the term “bucket list,” is currently attempting this feat. But he's not doing it alone — Zackham and his wife, Katherine, are traveling with… >> Read More

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The Jewish Ritual That Made Me Feel At Home

Anna Marx

In my 18-year relationship with my husband (15 of them married as of this year!), we have lived in 10 different houses in six different communities — including three cross-country moves. During… that span of time, we finished undergraduate and graduate school, held multiple jobs, brought two beautiful children into the world, and saw a lot of America’s highways. In each of these homes, there were a few constants, including the big, ugly rocking chair that belonged to my great-great grandmother and the childhood teddy bears that… >> Read More

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