I served in Afghanistan as a Jewish Army chaplain By Cantor David Frommer, Forward Sep 17, 2021 When the US was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, I was the same age as the current cadets at West Point are now. After graduating from college, I assumed I would leave the dangers of Afghanistan to our military and focus on studying for the Jewish clergy. Growing up on the Upper East Side, Judaism… Read More
First Person Working at J. has taught me what really matters as a journalist I was a college senior, hungry for a foot into the journalism world. “Are there any jobs available?” I cold emailed J. editor Sue Fishkoff in April 2019.… By Gabriel Greschler Sep 15, 2021
Books No one lost their Jewish name at Ellis Island — but we gained a haven Shortly before he died, my dad gave me a trove of family documents, some dating to the 19th century. For the first time I had confirmation of what our… By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA Sep 15, 2021
First Person We're spending the High Holidays traveling the world — virtually This article originally appeared on Kveller. One of the distinctively Jewish benefits of the pandemic is that we can attend services virtually anywhere… By Avi Dresner, JTA Sep 14, 2021
First Person Give yourself some credit this year with this positive Yom Kippur prayer Every year during the High Holidays, Jews recite a litany of ways we have fallen short in a confessional prayer. Known as a viddui, the prayer is a… By Rabbi Jillian Cameron, Cantor Juval Porat, JTA Sep 13, 2021
Opinion As a Texas rabbi, I will defy the abortion ban if necessary I once had to counsel a woman to get an abortion. Years ago, I was the rabbi of a congregation in greater Kansas City. I knew this woman had preexisting… By Rabbi Danny Horwitz, RNS Sep 3, 2021
Local Voice Our pregnancy story shows how wrong Texas’ new abortion law is Our 20-week ultrasound was scheduled on a Friday morning, during the intermediate days of Passover, and we looked forward to the appointment with eager… By Dena Stein and Rabbi Daniel Stein Sep 2, 2021
First Person Is there an antidote for all this hopelessness? Recently I drove from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. A couple of hours into my trip, as I drove through dense wildfire smoke near Lake Tahoe, I saw a… By George Altshuler Aug 23, 2021
First Person Reporting from Afghanistan, I saw just how little we Americans knew Just weeks after U.S. forces and their allies in the Northern Alliance had routed the Taliban from most of Afghanistan, the NY Daily News assigned me to… By Larry Cohler-Esses, Forward Aug 19, 2021