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First Person

(Illustration/JTA)
Posted inOpinion

My fellow progressives are always asking me if anti-Zionism is antisemitic. Here’s what I tell them.

Oren Jacobson by Oren Jacobson and JTA October 26, 2021
a man stands speaking at a podium. a banner in the background reads "A VIBRANT DIASPORA"
Posted inFirst Person

Excerpt: Let me tell you why I ‘do Jewish’

Zack Bodner by Zack Bodner October 14, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Plume Creative-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

The ‘Jewface’ debate about casting non-Jews as Jews betrays an Ashkenazi bias

MaNishtana by MaNishtana and JTA October 13, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inUncategorized

My militant sister campaigns against intermarriage. I am engaged to a gentile. Here’s how we remain family.

Rachel Hartman by Rachel Hartman and JTA October 7, 2021
"Exodus 2: Mosheh Cradles Moshah" by Yael Kanarek
Posted inReligion

I reversed the genders of every person in the Torah — and it finally feels complete

by Yael Kanarek and Forward September 28, 2021September 28, 2021
Eric Gattmann
Posted inCommunity, First Person, Obituaries, Jewish Life, Opinion

Remembering Eric Gattmann, an educator committed to justice

Rabbi Lee Bycel by Rabbi Lee Bycel September 28, 2021September 29, 2021
(Photo/Forward-Montinique Monroe-Getty)
Posted inOpinion

Spending time with unhoused people challenged everything I knew about Sukkot

Hannah Lebovits by Hannah Lebovits and Forward September 24, 2021September 24, 2021
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews' daily vigil in front of the Soviet Consulate, Nov. 24, 1986 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inFirst Person

When I became Jewishly woke

by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin and RNS September 23, 2021
Cantor David Frommer, formerly of Congregation Sherith Israel, on reserve duty in 2015. (Photo/File)
Posted inOpinion

I served in Afghanistan as an Army chaplain. Jewish wisdom can help us process what comes after withdrawal.

by Cantor David Frommer and Forward September 17, 2021September 17, 2021
Gabriel Greschler on one of his first reporting expeditions for J., to a Wilderness Torah retreat.
Posted inFirst Person

Working at J. has taught me what really matters as a journalist

by Gabriel Greschler September 15, 2021September 15, 2021

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