According to a Boston Globe article, “senior citizens [in the U.S.] live in nursing homes where they mainly see other very old people, while new retirees now often buy condos in age-segregated communities…. Adolescents, who in a previous era might have spent significant time around adults while farming, apprenticing, or helping with the family business, spend their after-school hours on social media, talking mostly to one another.” And in contrast to the intergenerational relationships that are a staple of Israeli life, especially each week over Shabbat, “it is possible, today, for a
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