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Mourners attending a candlelight vigil in Las Vegas for the victims of the mass shooting there, Oct. 2, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Drew Angerer-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Why this rabbanit drove to Las Vegas after the shooting

Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn by Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn October 4, 2017October 4, 2017
Low-magnification micrograph of ovarian cancer cells. Ovarian cancer is particularly common among Ashkenazi Jews. (Photo/Wikimedia-Nephron CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inOpinion

When cancer struck, my relationship to Judaism evolved

Marcia Renée Goodman by Marcia Renée Goodman October 2, 2017
Rescuers from the Mexican-Jewish aid agency Cadena inspecting damage in Mexico City on Sept. 23, 2017 following a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the city four days earlier. (Photo/Courtesy Cadena)
Posted inOpinion

How this Mexican Jewish NGO is taking charge after the earthquake

Alan Grabinsky by Alan Grabinsky October 1, 2017September 29, 2017
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inOpinion

I won’t be fasting this year because I have an eating disorder

Alex Braun by Alex Braun September 29, 2017
Outside of Moria refugee camp on the second consecutive day of mass demonstrations over living conditions in the camp.
Posted inOpinion

Helpless in Lesbos: Small victories, short supplies and a ‘Theater of the Oppressed’

Hillel Zand by Hillel Zand September 28, 2017September 28, 2017
a melancholy photo of a women looking away holding a flower
Posted inOpinion

Why I won’t forgive my sexual harasser this Yom Kippur

Leora Eisenberg by Leora Eisenberg September 25, 2017
image of small rocks being washed by water on a beach
Posted inHolidays

Make a vow this Yom Kippur: Remove your heart of stone

Rabbi Naomi Levy by Rabbi Naomi Levy September 20, 2017September 20, 2017
For one Israeli living in New York, there’s nothing like celebrating Rosh Hashanah with family back at home. (Illustration/JTA-Lior Zaltzman)
Posted inHolidays

I’m Israeli, and Rosh Hashanah in the U.S. just isn’t enough

Lior Zaltzman by Lior Zaltzman September 13, 2017September 13, 2017
Jon and Amanda (Lafferty) Zrihen with their wedding party at their Lake Tahoe wedding
Posted inOpinion

A Jewish boy, an Irish girl and a guest list of every skin tone

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen September 8, 2017September 7, 2017
Natan Sharansky speaking in front of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, Feb. 6, 1987 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inOpinion

Remembering days of protest at soon-to-close S.F. Russian consulate

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn September 1, 2017September 1, 2017

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