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Jackie Hajdenberg

Jackie Hajdenberg

Jackie Hajdenberg is a reporter at JTA. She has a degree in political science from Barnard College and a master’s in journalism from Columbia Journalism School. Her reporting and writing has appeared in USA Today, PBS Frontline, the Detroit Free Press, Vox and Hey Alma. She writes satire and hangs out on Twitter.

Galveston residents celebrate Juneteenth, which originated in the Texas city. (Photo/JTA-Getty)
Posted inU.S.

This Juneteenth, Jewish communities are reckoning with their own attitudes on race

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 17, 2022June 17, 2022
Ver voynt in an ananas untern yam? (Photo/Getty; Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inTV & Film

The ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ theme song is now in Yiddish

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 14, 2022
“Na la’amod" means “please stand” in Hebrew, and is a non-gendered way to announce a person about to receive Torah honors. (Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inReligion

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
A streaming Shabbat service in Minnesota got explicit when a couple engaged in sexual activity during a bat mitzvah. (JTA illustration)
Posted inU.S.

Couple’s Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises eyebrows — and renews questions about online services

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 3, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar. 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Emin Sansar-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Volodymyr Zelensky, Mila Kunis, Zoë Kravitz among Jews on this year’s Time 100 list

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 24, 2022May 24, 2022
April Lapidus marches with the National Council of Jewish Women S.F. section at the “Bans Off Our Bodies” protest in San Francisco, May 14, 2022. (Photo/Brooke Anderson)
Posted inU.S.

National Council of Jewish Women creates Jewish abortion fund

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 17, 2022
More than 750 campers and 300 counselors attended Camp Ramah in the Berkshires in the summer of 2015. (Photo/JTA-Uriel Heilman)
Posted inUncategorized, U.S.

Lawsuit alleges mishandling of 15-year-old’s sex assault allegation at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 10, 2022
Rabbi Daniel Bogard (left) and Shira Berkowitz lead songs at Camp Ramot Amoona. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Berkowitz)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish summer camp veterans are opening a camp for trans kids. It was filled within weeks.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 10, 2022May 10, 2022
Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, speaks at an abortion rights rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Dec. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg)
Posted inNews

Jewish advocates for abortion rights already planned a rally. Now they’re thinking about their post-Roe work.

Jackie HajdenbergGabe Friedman by Jackie Hajdenberg, Gabe Friedman and JTA May 3, 2022
Chickens eating their feed at a poultry plant. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Can’t find poultry for Passover? The kosher chicken shortage, explained

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

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