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“Na la’amod" means “please stand” in Hebrew, and is a non-gendered way to announce a person about to receive Torah honors. (Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inReligion

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2019. (Photo/Forward-Andrew Harrer-Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Why are AIPAC and J Street endorsing the same candidates?

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld, Jacob Kornbluh and Forward June 6, 2022June 6, 2022
Downtown Chicago, where Morningstar’s headquarters is located, became the site of pro-Palestinian protests, featuring calls to boycott Israel, during last May’s fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas in Gaza. (Photo/JTA-Jacek Boczarski-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Financial firm Morningstar admits to errors on Israel in bid to quell boycott controversy

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA June 6, 2022
A streaming Shabbat service in Minnesota got explicit when a couple engaged in sexual activity during a bat mitzvah. (JTA illustration)
Posted inU.S.

Couple’s Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises eyebrows — and renews questions about online services

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 3, 2022
Gabe Kapler kneels during the playing of the National Anthem prior to a game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, July 31, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Thearon W. Henderson-Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Gabe Kapler is following in the footsteps of other Jewish activist athletes, from Hank Greenberg to Aly Raisman

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA June 3, 2022
Posted inNews

Boycott advocates claim victory as General Mills divests its Israeli dough operation

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 2, 2022
a black man in a suit jacket speaks on stage
Posted inPolitics

New super PAC aims at electing pro-Israel Black Democrats

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 1, 2022
People take part in demonstrations demanding civilian rule in Sudan's capital of Khartoum, May 26, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Mahmoud Hjaj-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Biden administration suspends Abraham Accords assistance to Sudan, urges Israel to call for democracy

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 31, 2022
A Palestinian man waves the Palestinian flag next to the Israeli outpost of Eviatar, north of Nablus in the West Bank, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Jaafar Ashtiyeh-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Pew survey: Americans are not paying attention to the boycott Israel movement

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 27, 2022May 27, 2022
Youth at a JQY drop-in center event. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Queer Youth)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world.’

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi and Forward May 27, 2022May 27, 2022

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