Over the last year, Leah Hager Cohen has attended weekly Zoom seminars about Israel and Palestine. After a recent seminar, she was compelled to make a donation to a Palestinian arts organization, only to have her transaction held up. What she learned next made her think more deeply about individual...

"I’ve lost count of the number of passersby who say 'You must be really hot in there,'" writes Sabine von Mering. But no one can actually understand what she's saying through the bear mask, so she just nods. "Yes, it’s too hot; for all of us," she writes.