New York Times visual reporters Malin Fezehai, Walter Thompson-Hernández, Stephen Hiltner and more contributors cover the world's rich and varied communities.
Highlights
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In the state of Israel’s early years, a number of parents in immigrant transit camps were told that their babies had died. Their families believe the babies were abducted by the Israeli authorities in the 1950s, and were illegally put up for adoption to childless Ashkenazi families, Jews of European descent. A younger generation is demanding answers.
“There were meet-ups that were generalized for those in their 20s, 30s and 40s, but there was nothing for older women,” said the founder of a group in Los Angeles. “And I didn’t want men.”
The population of Chinatown, one of Manhattan’s few historic immigrant working class neighborhoods, is shifting. How are the people in the food businesses there adjusting?
Prewedding henna ceremonies have regained popularity in Israel’s Jewish Yemenite community, an expression of ethnic pride in their heritage and traditions.
At the Groom Expo, the world’s largest creative grooming industry event, held in Hershey, Pa., dogs are every color of the rainbow. But the practice is not without its critics.
Living among us are hundreds of fairy gardeners, who maintain a sense of childlike wonder and whimsy by embracing miniature gardening with fairies, gnomes and other mythical figurines.
A group in Los Angeles has attracted U.F.O. enthusiasts from all over the world. They’ve formed together around the common question: What are these things in the sky, exactly, and how can they know more about them?
Mawlynnong, a village in northeastern India, attracts throngs of visitors eager for a slice of village life, lush gardens and a tradition of cleanliness.
