Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation

Americans are disconnected from each other at historic levels, buffeted by what a former surgeon general calls an “epidemic ...

Efforts to reconnect Americans face challenges in a lonely time

It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. The “bowling alone” phenomenon. By any name, it refers to ...
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Australia’s Jewish community is defined by Holocaust survivors, Yiddishkeit and immigrants

An attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney has drawn attention to Australia’s distinctive Jewish community.

Harada, Japanese director of award-winning 'Chronicle of My Mother,' dies

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Masato Harada, a Japanese director known for films such as "Chronicle of My Mother" and "Climber's High" ...