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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
Activists from the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the National Council of Jewish Women attend a demonstration outside the Supreme Court in early 2020. (Courtesy Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism)
Posted inNews

Jewish leaders pledge ‘fight’ on abortion following Supreme Court report

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
Nigerian students Funke Oluwatosin, left, and Deborah Ologbenla, right, pose for photos in Hillel sweatshirts. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz)
Posted inWorld

From Nigeria to Kyiv to a Hillel in Berlin: The long, strange journey of 2 students fleeing the Ukraine war

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA May 2, 2022
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, left, speaks with Rashad Hussain at a Muslim Jewish Advisory Council event at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington D.C., April 28 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inNews

Doug Emhoff says being the second gentleman brought him closer to Judaism

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 2, 2022May 2, 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, shakes hands with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, May 21, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Kremlin media center)
Posted inWorld

Speaking about Zelensky, Russian foreign minister says Hitler also had Jewish ancestry

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 2, 2022
headshot of Ross Farca superimposed over a larger image of a courthouse
Posted inUncategorized

Ross Farca, Concord man who threatened to kill Jews and built assault rifle, will be released next year

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 29, 2022
The Gravlabs menorah bong was the impetus for the exhibit on Jews and cannabis. (Photo/YIVO Archives)
Posted inBay Area

‘Am Yisrael High’: Jewish cannabis connection examined in Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 29, 2022April 29, 2022
A view of the Drobitsky Yar Holocaust memorial complex on the eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, after it was hit with Russian missiles, Mar. 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sergey Bobok-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

In Israel, some Holocaust survivors from Ukraine feel ambivalent about their war-torn country of birth

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA April 29, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks while Rep. Brad Schneider looks on at a Yom HaShoah commemoration in the Capitol, April 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Office of Brad Schneider)
Posted inCalifornia

Pelosi joins Holocaust survivors in reading names of the murdered on Yom HaShoah

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 28, 2022April 28, 2022
Bashir and his family reunited at Chabad of Fremont. (Photo/Bonnie Kellogg)
Posted inBay Area

Targeted by Taliban, Afghan refugee family finds home at Chabad of Fremont — and with the Jewish community

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 28, 2022

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