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The scene inside Milk + Honey’s shipping container as Kabbalat Shabbat services at Burning Man began Friday night. (Photo/Forward-Danielle Kushner)

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With Burning Man caked in mud, this camp saved Shabbat

by Louis Keene September 5, 2023September 5, 2023

The wedding of Molly Kazin, who is Jewish, and Evan Marshall, who is not, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on Nov. 20, 2021. Though Kazin grew up in a Conservative congregation, she assumed she could not get a rabbi in the movement to preside at her wedding, and found one through the organization where she works, 18Doors, which supports relationships between Jews and non-Jews. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Molly Kazin)

Conservative movement’s ban on rabbis officiating at interfaith weddings will stand

by Louis Keene August 25, 2023

The damage in Lahaina, Maui. (Photo/Forward-Mendel Zirkind)

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‘They have nowhere to go’: On Maui, a Chabad-run farm gives safe harbor to dozens of Jews

by Louis Keene August 14, 2023August 14, 2023

Exterior of Jewish Congregation of Maui. (Photo/mauijews.org)

U.S.

Chabad of Maui in evac zone, while another synagogue shelters fire evacuees

by Louis Keene August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

A Memphis police car in 2022. (Photo/JTA-Brad Vest-Getty Images)

U.S.

Man who allegedly fired shots at Jewish school shared grievances against it, flashbacks of father’s violent death

by Louis Keene and Beth Harpaz August 1, 2023August 1, 2023

The weekly "Shabbat stroll" at Camp Tawonga in 2022. (Courtesy Tawonga)

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At Jewish sleepaway camps this summer, bunks and bathrooms accommodate any gender identity

by Louis Keene June 27, 2023

American Jewish University in Bel Air, California. (Photo/Wikimedia-Cbl62 CC BY-SA 3.0)

Former rabbinical students complain to Conservative movement about sexism at LA seminary

by Louis Keene and Forward April 18, 2023

Garrett Stubbs, Ryan Lavarnway and Noah Mendlinger played for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

On Israeli baseball team, locker room talk turned to politics

by Louis Keene and Forward March 20, 2023

Inset: Jaime Tran was arrested after two shootings outside synagogues in L.A.'s heavily Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson. Background: Police on the scene after the second shooting, Feb. 16, 2023 (Photo/Forward-Louis Keene)

In emails, man arrested in L.A. shootings accused Jewish classmates of creating COVID-19 pandemic

by Louis Keene and Forward February 21, 2023

Left: Guy Taieb, 73, outside the Pinto Center Friday morning. Right: Taieb's wounds from Thursday morning, when he was shot walking home from services. (Photos/Forward-Louis Keene; Courtesy Taieb)

Los Angeles shooting victim: ‘He was looking for Jewish people for sure’

by Louis Keene and Forward February 17, 2023