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Sheila Katz, vice president of Hillel International, and Michael Steinhardt (Katz photo/Courtesy of Katz; Steinhardt photo/JTA-Getty Images)
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Michael Steinhardt sexually harassed me. Years later, he’s being held accountable.

Sheila Katz by Sheila Katz March 27, 2019December 7, 2021
Michal Morris Kamil with her mother Sarah Morris
Posted inOpinion

Gender inequity, fury and my decision to become a rabbi

Michal Morris Kamil by Michal Morris Kamil March 26, 2019April 2, 2019
Rae Levin, the perfect rebbetzin
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The tragedy of my grandmother, born too early for the drugs she needed

Donna Levin by Donna Levin March 8, 2019
Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf with the leader of a collective of midwives in Guatemala
Posted inOpinion

Guatemalan midwives taught me the meaning of moral courage

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf February 20, 2019February 20, 2019
selfie of a young black woman in Israel
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Birthright while Black: a revealing experience

Shekhiynah Larks by Shekhiynah Larks February 19, 2019February 19, 2019
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1915
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My grandparents loved their adopted land. Would they feel safe in America today?

by David Waksberg January 14, 2019January 15, 2019
The lake at URJ Kutz Camp and one of the camp's iconic "pagodas"
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Saying goodbye to Kutz Camp, Reform Judaism’s ‘forever home’

Lisa Silverstein Tzur by Lisa Silverstein Tzur December 3, 2018December 3, 2018
The author is on the top row, third from the left
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I am a Pittsburgh Jew, a Tree of Life Jew

Melanie Cartiff Marcus by Melanie Cartiff Marcus October 31, 2018October 31, 2018
1999 Los Angeles JCC mass shooting survivor Mindy Finklestein weeps as she tells her story at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, Oct. 28, 2018. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
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How the Jewish community healed me after I was shot at a JCC

Mindy Finkelstein by Mindy Finkelstein October 30, 2018October 30, 2018
black and white: a man in an old US army uniform
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100 years since WWI: significant for S.F. — and my family

Quentin Kopp by Quentin Kopp October 30, 2018November 2, 2018

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