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Putin is no match for my Jewish Ukrainian babushka

Florina Rodov by Florina Rodov and Forward June 1, 2022
Crosses sit outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after a gunman killed 21 people inside, May 24, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Yasin Ozturk-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I left Israel to give my kids the American dream. Is this it?

Lior Zaltzman by Lior Zaltzman and JTA May 31, 2022
A man wearing a kippah at a gathering in Berlin to protest antisemitism, April 25, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Carsten Koall-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I’m not Jewish. But being called ‘dirty Jew’ shook me like no other insult.

by Alfred P. Doblin and Forward May 30, 2022May 31, 2022
Jewish women protesting for abortion rights in the 1970s. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Women International)
Posted inOpinion

I remember the ‘coat hanger’ era of abortions. We can’t go back.

Rabbi Steven Chester by Rabbi Steven Chester May 23, 2022
A service conducted by Rabbi Deborah Newbrun (right) and her wife at Camp Tawonga.
(Photo/Courtesy Newbrun)
Posted inLocal Voice

How the Jewish community can do divorce better

Rabbi Deborah Newbrun by Rabbi Deborah Newbrun May 17, 2022May 18, 2022
Jewish women protesting for abortion rights in the 1970s. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Women International)
Posted inOpinion

Would my 1971 ‘missed abortion’ be criminal in a post-Roe world?

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent May 11, 2022May 12, 2022
A crowd gathers outside the Supreme Court on May 2, 2022. (Photo/RNS-AP-Alex Brandon)
Posted inUncategorized

The Christian right’s abortion policy isn’t in my Torah

Rabbi Rachel Barenblat by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and RNS May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
Jewish Women International at a protest for abortion rights in 2016. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Jewish Women International)
Posted inOpinion

Jewish women are on the frontlines of the fight for abortion rights. We can’t give up hope now.

headshot of Meredith Jacobs by Meredith Jacobs and Forward May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz in 1944. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inLocal Voice

I say their names. Every night. Not just on Yom HaShoah.

Anastasia Torres-Gil by Anastasia Torres-Gil April 27, 2022April 27, 2022
Klaas Mokgomole
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I’m South African. Calling Israel ‘apartheid’ puts the BS in BDS.

Klaas Mokgomole by Klaas Mokgomole April 22, 2022April 22, 2022

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