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Elizabeth Schwartz Cohen lost count of how many times she found herself glued to her phone in her Tel Aviv apartment in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, bracing for the next missile alert and the scramble to a shelter. Loading audio narration… Now, Tel Aviv is under fire once…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kenny Jary of the social media account Patriotic Kenny. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… Back in the day, I always said that I wanted a tattoo. I was in the United States Navy, and everyone…
Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday in 2011.After a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami ravaged the electrical grid and flooded the…
My husband and I wanted space. We wanted to be off-grid. Loading audio narration… After years of traveling in a van, our wild hippie hearts wanted a place where we could build whatever we wanted, meditate outside in the sun, and feel inspired by natural, untouched land nearby.When we first…
I sat on the terrace of my Washington Heights apartment building, soaking in the view of the city skyline one last time. Loading audio narration… It was my last night in New York City before I moved back to India. I’d relocated to the US five years earlier, at age…
