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Two women, one wearing a tallit, blow the shofar amid the Capitol rioting, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/Lloyd Wolf)

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Why right-wing Christian politicians keep blowing the shofar

by Adam Kovac and Forward September 23, 2022September 23, 2022

Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston, a school which Los Gatos teen Danny Tal decided not to consider attending because of local abortion laws. (Photo/Wikimedia-Lkeadle CC BY-SA 3.0)

Abortion laws are becoming a factor in Jewish students’ college choices

by Jordan Greene and Forward September 22, 2022

two photos side by side; both show bearded men in black hats; goldstein, on the left, is much younger.

Chabad of San Diego fires Poway rabbi who refused oversight

by Louis Keene and Forward September 20, 2022

Pedestrians walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn. (Photo/Forward-Getty Images)

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How the Jewish establishment helps fund Hasidic yeshivas

by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward September 16, 2022

Sabra, the Israeli superhero who will make her screen debut in the fourth Captain American movie played by Shira Haas, first appeared in 1980’s “Incredible Hulk” No. 256, “Power in the Promised Land!”

Meet Sabra, Marvel’s Israeli superhero, soon to be played by Shira Haas

by PJ Grisar and Forward September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

Women at Auschwitz, May 1944. (Photo/Forward-Yad Vashem Archives-AFP via Getty Images)

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Did Nazis make these Jewish women at Auschwitz infertile?

by Hallie Lieberman and Forward September 14, 2022

a close up of two people's hands clasped together

Roe’s reversal leaves Jewish IVF couples in a legal and emotional crossfire

by Elana Frank and Forward September 12, 2022

While women, pictured here at a Jewish Federations of North America gathering in 2019, have been hired for chief executive roles at many smaller and mid-size federations, they lag far behind men in the top job at major city federations — though Joy Sisisky of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation is a major exception. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Jewish Federations of North America)

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Though the Bay Area is an exception, the largest Jewish federations are run by men

by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

Palo Alto-born Joc Pederson batting for the San Francisco Giants in 2022. (Photo/JTA-Jim McIsaac-Getty Images)

The joys of catching a baseball at the Giants’ Jewish heritage night — thrown by a Jewish player

by Jordan Greene and Forward September 6, 2022September 7, 2022

JID performing at the Governors Ball music festival in New York City. (Photo/Forward-Getty Images)

How a Jewish folk song made it into a chart-topping rap banger

by Tani Levitt and Forward September 2, 2022