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Catherine Crystal Foster (left) and Karen Kronick trace a sanitary pad template during Congregation Beth Am's Mitzvah Day in March. (Todd Kaye)
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Fighting period poverty and menstrual ignorance, one pad at a time

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 15, 2026June 15, 2026

On a recent Sunday afternoon at Congregation Beth Am, I grabbed scissors and cut cotton cloth into oblongs for reusable menstrual pads.  In rural Uganda, where the pads are destined […]

Rita Semel at her home in San Francisco in 2020. (Norm Levin/J.)
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A tribute to the extraordinary 104-year life of Rita Semel

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn May 28, 2026June 11, 2026
Lev Miller Ruderman was a student at San Lorenzo Valley High School when he was the subject of antisemitic bullying. (SLVUSD via Facebook)
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Jewish students don’t want to sue over antisemitism. Schools leave them no choice.

Lev Miller Ruderman by Lev Miller Ruderman May 27, 2026May 27, 2026
Sue Barnett in Tel Aviv in January of 1991, shortly after the start of the Gulf War. Her shirt has a caricature of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and reads "I survived Jan. 15 in Israel."
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I’m retiring after 22 years as a J. editor, and I’m ready to tell the story

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett April 30, 2026April 30, 2026
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, founder of the Jewish psychedelic organization Shefa, prays in the Giant Sequoia Grove in Berkeley, Aug. 6, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Psychedelics: A new approach to healing Jewish trauma is on the horizon

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz April 27, 2026April 27, 2026
A memorial stands near the entombed reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (Trey Ratcliff CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr)
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Decades after Chernobyl, Russia’s arrogance toward Ukraine persists

Danny Grossman by Danny Grossman April 24, 2026April 24, 2026
A man drinks from a segregated water fountain in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1950. (Elliott Erwitt/National Museum of American History via Wikimedia/CC0 1.0)
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‘Stick to your own kind’? Sometimes, it’s not about race

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 24, 2026April 24, 2026
Temple Beth-El in Great Neck, N.Y. (Courtesy of Temple Beth-El)
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A pioneering Reform synagogue makes way for a booming Iranian Jewish community

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Autism awareness has never been higher — but these misconceptions linger

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight April 13, 2026April 13, 2026
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She was my Jewish angel, but she never even knew it

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