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United Teachers Los Angeles (background, celebrating the end of a strike in 2019) is one of several defendants in the suit. (Photo/file)
Posted inCalifornia

‘Liberated’ ethnic studies group hit with lawsuit alleging civil rights violations

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 13, 2022May 26, 2022
The wedding of Molly Kazin, who is Jewish, and Evan Marshall, who is not, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 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 group where she works, 18Doors, which supports relationships between Jews and non-Jews.
Posted inU.S.

More Conservative rabbis struggle with interfaith marriage ban — and some are flouting it

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Forward May 13, 2022
Police officers clash with attendees of the funeral of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem, May 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Amir Levy-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Israeli police attack Al Jazeera journalist’s funeral procession, nearly toppling coffin

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 13, 2022May 13, 2022
Deborah Lipstadt, appears during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 08, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Jabin Botsford-The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

In first talk after confirmation, Deborah Lipstadt decries those who don’t take antisemitism seriously

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 13, 2022May 13, 2022
Jon and Lissa Kaplan during the repair of the "Familant Torah," which will soon depart Palo Alto for Israel.
Posted inBay Area

‘Survivor Torah’ scroll will journey from Palo Alto to Israel this summer

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 12, 2022May 25, 2022
Michael, a patient at a Brooklyn methadone clinic for those addicted to heroin, displays a Hebrew tattoo of the "shema" prayer that he looks to in his fight with addiction. (Photo/Forward-Spencer Platt-Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021. How should Jewish communities respond?

by Rudy Malcom and Forward May 12, 2022May 12, 2022
Palestinians carry the flag-draped body of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as it is carried toward the offices of the news channel in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 11, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ronaldo Schemidt-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Israeli officials say source of gunfire that killed Al Jazeera journalist cannot yet be determined

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 12, 2022
From left: Lidia S., Olympiada D., Aleksandra B. and Aleksander S. are among 15 Ukrainians named "Righteous Among the Nations" who helped save Jews during the Holocaust who were still living in Ukraine when Russia invaded. (Photo/NY Jewish Week-Courtesy Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
Posted inWorld

Inside the mission to aid Ukraine’s 15 remaining ‘Righteous Gentiles’

by Stewart Ain and Jewish Week May 11, 2022
The Reuven family, seen here in New York, decided to spend a year traveling after Stav's death.
Posted inBay Area

Suicide prevention a priority for grieving South Bay family, where youth depression is common

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
Mujahed al-Saadi, a cameraman for Palestine Today TV, escorts the body of veteran Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot and killed as she covered a raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, May 11, 2022, at the hospital in Jenin. (Photo/JTA-Jaafar Ashtiyeh-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shot and killed while reporting on Israeli army operation

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA May 11, 2022

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