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A crowd of about 4,000 crammed the Coney Island Amphitheater for the Chosen Comedy Festival, Aug. 16, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Mike Monti)
Posted inOpinion

The Catskills meet Mount Sinai at a night of unifying Jewish comedy

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 22, 2022August 22, 2022
A portion of Philissa Cramer's conversation with BlenderBot 3, including one of many invitations to its synagogue — yes, its synagogue. (Screenshot)
Posted inReligion

BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, really, really wants you to check out its synagogue

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA August 16, 2022
Cornwall feels just slightly less picturesque when you have Covid.
Posted inAct Two

Another travel misadventure: Title it ‘Covid in Cornwall’

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent August 11, 2022August 10, 2022
(Photo/Flickr-María Helena Carey CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Long Island history gone awry: the story of my not-mitzvah

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz August 10, 2022August 9, 2022
Lucia da Silva (center) prays with Women of the Wall during her bat mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall. (Photo/Forward-Tal Kfir Schurr)
Posted inYouth Voice

I went to Israel for my bat mitzvah at the Western Wall — but an angry ultra-Orthodox mob tried to stop it

by Lucia da Silva and Forward August 4, 2022
(Illustration/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

Can Jews agree to disagree? I was there as leaders gathered in New York in search of ‘viewpoint diversity.’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA August 4, 2022August 3, 2022
A postcard showing downtown Highland Park in 1943 or 1944. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Highland Park Archives and Local History Collections)
Posted inFirst Person

Pledging allegiance to the Highland Park of my childhood

by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi and Forward July 27, 2022
An image released by NASA on July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared light by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo/JTA-NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI-Handout via Xinhua)
Posted inOpinion

The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick and JTA July 19, 2022
Campers at Club Ed International Surfing School. (Photo/Forward-Justin Sullivan-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

My generation of parents is ruining sleep-away summer camp

Jodi Rudoren by Jodi Rudoren and Forward July 18, 2022
Jason Van Tatenhove, who served as national spokesman for the Oath Keepers and as a close aide to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, appears for testimony during the seventh hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on July 12, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo/Forward-Kevin Dietsch-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Why did a former Oath Keeper leave over Holocaust denialism? Because of his Jewish family.

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward July 15, 2022July 20, 2022

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