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After one month of wandering around a foreign city without any grasp of its language, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I’m sure you’ve noticed, too, that overhearing a conversation in a strange tongue, and in some … Read More

“You’re packing that?”   It wasn’t heat, but it might as well have been for the look my mother gave me. I looked down at the Brandeis hoodie I was holding. Mother didn’t think a sweatshirt with the name of … Read More

[This post by Hinda Mandell is the first in a series of dispatches from Berlin, where she's making good on an international journalism fellowship.] Ah, to be a Jew in Germany during the High Holidays. It’s filled with so much … Read More