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Shamu Sadeh // Falls Village, CT In July of 1991, I joined high school students, biologists and environmental activists on…

David Sax // Toronto, ON The Fuzz discovered bacon at summer camp, as did many of us. By “The Fuzz,”…

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Claudia Itzkowich // Montreal, QC If a business opportunity came up in Mexico in the late 1920s, a new Jewish…

Shira Bannerman // Norwood, CO I often have this feeling that my body will accidentally betray me. I worry that…

Orit // Brooklyn, NY I didn’t know it at the time, but the day my mother returned home feeling victorious…

Julie Thorneycroft // Norwood, CO During the four months I lived with my boyfriend James in his home country of…

Arnold Yoskowitz // Sarasota, FL When I was 8 or 9 years old my parents brought me to the old…

A.M. // Los Angeles, CA I had this professor of Modern Middle East history who would occasionally host class at…