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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.

Women protest for abortion rights
Posted inNews

Missouri judge rejects suit by interfaith clergy, including rabbis, that challenged abortion ban

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 17, 2024June 17, 2024
Head of Shalhevet High School Rabbi David Block speaks at the class of 2023 graduation. (Screenshot via Vimeo)
Posted inCalifornia

L.A. Jewish day school censors two student newspaper articles on Israel-Hamas war

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Höss and Hans-Jurgen Höss visit Auschwitz. (Photo/Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)
Posted inTV & Film

‘The Commandant’s Shadow’ tells the true Holocaust story behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg May 29, 2024
Characters from Sesame Street bake challah together for an episode titled "Shabbat Shalom". (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Sesame Workshop)
Posted inTV

How a Jewish day school principal taught ‘Sesame Street’ how to celebrate Shabbat

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg May 22, 2024May 22, 2024
Rabbi Jill Hausman of the Actors' Temple in New York appears on “Saturday Night Live” on May 18, 2024. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inTV

Meet Jill Hausman, the real rabbi who grimaced through jokes about Jews on SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg May 20, 2024
The René C. Davidson Courthouse of the Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland. (Photo/Gabriel Classon-Flickr CC BY 2.0)
Posted inBay Area

Jews were excluded from Alameda County’s death penalty juries for decades, new evidence reveals

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg May 13, 2024June 23, 2024
Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Alex Edelman
Posted inU.S.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin, Alex Edelman among Jews on Time’s 2024 ‘Most Influential’ list

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg April 18, 2024
Avi Azulay as Moses holds the Ten Commandments in the Netflix series “Testament: The Story of Moses,”. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inTV

‘Testament: The Story of Moses’ is one of Netflix’s top shows — and it features multiple rabbis

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg April 3, 2024
Comedian Modi Rosenfeld (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Rosenfeld)
Posted inUncategorized, Comedy

Modi, a comedian popular with Orthodox crowds, has a new special. He wants non-Jews to watch, too.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg March 27, 2024March 27, 2024
Jewish thought leaders are facing down the uncomfortable implications of Chapter Nine of the Book of Esther at a time when the Jewish people are responding to the deadliest attack on them since the Holocaust.(Photo/JTA-Getty)
Posted inReligion

How Jews are addressing the megillah’s bloodiest chapter during this wartime Purim

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg March 15, 2024

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