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Nora Berman

Nora Berman

Nora Berman is the Forward’s deputy opinion editor. Follow her on Twitter @noraeberman.

A parade counterprotest sees "queerness as an ongoing engagement in the liberation of all people." (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inU.S.

‘Conversion therapy is having a moment’ — what will it mean for LGBT Jews?

Nora Berman by Nora Berman October 17, 2025October 16, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. The Supreme Court dove into the culture wars again this week by hearing arguments on conversion therapy — a controversial pseudoscientific practice […]

Widener Library at Harvard University (Wikimedia)
Posted inOpinion

Jewish university presidents: Trump is exploiting campus antisemitism, not fighting it

Nora Berman by Nora Berman April 16, 2025April 16, 2025
A scene from "October 8"
Posted inOpinion

Is this new documentary giving voice to American Jewish anguish — or simply stoking fear?

Nora Berman by Nora Berman March 27, 2025March 27, 2025
(Screenshot/Guernica; Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inOpinion

An elite literary journal imploded over an essay about the war — because it dared to humanize Israelis as well as Palestinians

Nora Berman by Nora Berman March 14, 2024
Amira Mohammed, co-host of the podcast "Unapologetic: The Third Narrative," during the podcast's first episode. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inPodcasts

‘We’re sick and tired of the West telling us what to do’: Palestinian Israeli peace activists speak out on a new podcast

Nora Berman by Nora Berman December 27, 2023December 27, 2023
Abbi Jacobson (right) in "A League of Their Own" on Amazon.
Posted inCulture

In ‘A League of Their Own,’ queer representation is a home run. But Jewish representation leaves much to be desired

Nora Berman by Nora Berman and Forward August 19, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg arrives for the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Valerie Macon-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments were wrong — and I’m glad she said them

Nora Berman by Nora Berman and Forward February 2, 2022
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Photo/Pixabay)
Posted inUncategorized

The Met is erasing the Sackler name. Tel Aviv University’s medical school should be next.

Nora Berman by Nora Berman and Forward December 14, 2021

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