Analyze THIS

by Susan Schnur

Find out why your therapist became a therapist. Susan Schnur interviews well-known therapists and anonymous clients/patients on tikkun olam, one hour and one person at a time. Also, learning in pairs, transgenerational trauma, the power of memory, and more.

“So I’d Definitely Recommend Rhinoplasty…”

by Sarah Beller

A Jewish Mother on the Boy Scouts’ Anti-Gay Policy

by Heidi Gralla

Which families — and congregations — are taking a stance, matching their actions to their values?

The Locked Garden

fiction by Galit Dahan Carlibach, translated by Ilana Kurshan

How the Blumenfelds Lost Their Women

by Deborah Hertz

What happens when a great-grandfather’s diary is discovered? A family begins to piece itself back together on a journey to Latvia, while the author confronts the two halves of her inherited identity: rebellious Aunt Helen’s and dutiful Aunt Belle’s.

Blackberries

by Ronit Feinglass Plank

Childhood should be Edenic — but what happens when a mother’s gone before she’s gone?

• Challah by Leora Ifrailova

Hebrew Names

A Russian Jewish American gets to invent a new identity — and worries that she’s blown it.

A Letter to my Daughter

poetry by Bella Mahaya Carter