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Creative Commons/David Starkopf A family prepares to break challah at a Shabbat dinner. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel described the Jewish Sabbath as a “palace in time” that allows individuals to “lay down the profanity of clattering commerce.” More

Lily (Amy’s Bubbe) grieves the death of her family. From Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir Amy Kurzweil More

Five generations of an Armenian family gathered together for this photo from Christopher de Bellaigue’s book. Credit: Penguin Press. More

Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) “The family immediately disarmed me with their warmth,” the author writes, remembering how Mohammad Odeh’s mother put him at ease over steaming cups of tea. More

Many Jewish families continue to view their observation of the Torah’s circumcision command as a joyous occasion. Credit: Creative Commons/spilltojill. More

Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) For David Harris-Gershon and the Odeh family, the decision to sit down to tea together was difficult—and transformative. More

SAGE “The economic justice approach argues for stronger supports in the areas of paid leave, work-family supports, and long-term care and aging,” Espinoza writes. “The identity-based approach acknowledges that many of us, out of circumstance and discrimination, have forged families of choice More

European culture was cautious about psychedelics, as the continent’s native varieties were mostly toxic, like mandrake (bottom) and henbane, with effects similar to jimsonweed (top), a plant in the datura family. More

Creative Commons/Adam Jones, Ph.D. “The streets of Pilsen in Chicago . . . are filled with proof of the transnational activities of their residents,” the author writes. Images of roots and family appear in this mural on the side of a building in Pilsen. More

Diane Ovalle ( dianeovalle.com ) Children of the deported “have become a major voting block, and they are not going away,” the author writes. Here, children march against family separation during a rally in Phoenix, Arizona. More

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone plants an olive tree in the Palestinian village of Beit Surik, on land accessible to a family that has been cut off from the land it owns by the separation barrier, October 2010. More

Many Californians were outraged by the verdict. Here, members of the Los Angeles Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant appealed to a U.S. congresswoman in July 2010 for support in the continuing effort to secure justice for Grant and his family. More