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Redding Elementary School principal Maurice Gause (left) and teacher Mai-Tien Nguyen (center) at Redding's fifth-grade graduation, June 1, 2022.
Posted inFirst Person

A glimmer of hope from a diverse group of San Francisco fifth-graders

Meta Pasternak by Meta Pasternak June 15, 2022June 15, 2022
Rabbi Sally Priesand at her 1972 ordination (Photo/File)
Posted inLocal Voice

The first woman rabbi in the U.S. was ordained 50 years ago — I owe her so much

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg June 3, 2022June 3, 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
Members of Jews For Racial and Economic Justice and IfNotNow hold signs that say "Baruch Hashem [thank God] for Abortion" at a rally in New York, May 3, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Jacob Henry of NY Jewish Week)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why Jewish voices matter: religious freedom and abortion activism

Ronit Y. Stahl by Ronit Y. Stahl May 10, 2022
Protest against the reversal of abortion rights in front of the Supreme Court, May 2, 2022. (Photo/Miki Jourdan-Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

How California Jews can pursue justice for reproductive rights

by Julie Rabinovitz May 9, 2022May 11, 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
Naomi Tucker, executive director of Shalom Bayit, applauds a new ruling regarding get (Jewish religious divorce) refusal. (Photo/Amanda Martin)
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Yes, refusing to give a Jewish divorce is abuse

Naomi Tucker by Naomi Tucker April 26, 2022April 27, 2022
illustrative photo of rows of chairs in a synagogue
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An unexpected reminder of the wonder of a synagogue experience

Rabbi Darren Kleinberg by Rabbi Darren Kleinberg April 21, 2022

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