For me, the one most positive aspect of this entire period is the opportunity to attend events literally all over the world [via Zoom/technology]. We shared events we never would have been part of otherwise.

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Finally, the necessity to pray alone allowed me to choose more carefully what I would say and to concentrate more on the words and intentions of the prayers themselves. It’s amazing how many words and phrases that we had glossed over before have deeper meaning now that we understand we have so little control over what happens to us during our lifetimes.

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Julie Rothschild Levi, Rehovot

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I stopped sucking my thumb at age nine. I’m considering taking it up again. But since I’ve gotten braces twice in my life, I’ve opted instead to make goofy music video parodies for women with a “we can get through this plague together” theme.

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Dolly Parton, Queen and Cyndi Lauper (“I want to socialize without this mask on. Girls just wanna have fun… ”) have thus far been reinvented, with the intention to bring some comic relief to the stress, uncertainty and sheer exasperation of this time. Since I currently have no outlet on stage, whether it be in an improv show or musical theater production, I turn to video to offer up a laugh, a smile or an eye-roll.

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Lilian Susan May, Efrat

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My husband has been suffering from dementia

The lighter side of lockdown

Looking on the bright side of the world-upending pandemic