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As a Jewish teen in the Bible Belt, I face anti-Semitism all the time

by Sam Berndt August 21, 2019
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on right, meeting with Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s middle east peace envoy, at the Arab League Summit in Amman, Jordan, March 28, 2017. (Photo/Palestinian Presidency-Thaer Ghanaim)
Posted inOpinion

Israeli-Palestinian peace will take more than Jason Greenblatt’s tweets

Eran Nissan by JTA and Eran Nissan August 15, 2019August 15, 2019
Exterior of Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco
Posted inLocal Voice

How my internship at a Jewish funeral home changed me

Jacob Isaacs by Jacob Isaacs August 13, 2019
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Posted inMusic

Spotify’s Jewish music makes me feel like a kid again

Rabbi Yael Buechler by Rabbi Yael Buechler and JTA August 12, 2019
Tova Ricardo was J.'s 2019 summer intern. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inFirst Person

Wandering in translation, learning to speak the language of my people

Tova Ricardo by Tova Ricardo August 12, 2019
Participants on J Street’s first ‘Let My People Know’ trip in Hebron. (Photo/Courtesy J Street)
Posted inLocal Voice

Unlike Birthright, J Street’s trip shows the toll of occupation on both sides

Ethan Wellerstein by Ethan Wellerstein August 5, 2019August 5, 2019
The countryside as seen from the highest point of the Gush Etzion settlement in the West Bank, Feb. 2, 2018 (Photo/JTA-Jana Cavojska-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I’m an Israeli settler. This is why I spoke with J Street’s first ‘alternative Birthright’ group.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski by Rabbi Uri Pilichowski July 25, 2019July 25, 2019
Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon, after Neil Armstrong. (Photo/JTA-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

The kid in me wants another national moon shot, if not another shot at the moon

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 18, 2019
Laurel Javors (left) and Rafi Daugherty listen as another couple receives a civil union license in Denver in 2013 (Photo/JTA-Marc Piscotty-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I’m an Orthodox rabbi, and I officiate at LGBTQ weddings

Rabbi Avram Mlotek by Rabbi Avram Mlotek and JTA July 18, 2019October 28, 2020
The late Chabad rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Brooklyn, May 1987 (Photo/Wikimedia CC BY 3.0)
Posted inOpinion

The Chabad Rebbe died 25 years ago, but his impact lives on across all Jewish denominations

by Sue Fishkoff July 15, 2019July 15, 2019

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