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Posted inLocal Voice

We need an ethnic studies curriculum that respects all minorities

Rivka KeithGrayson PetersIlana Hamer by Rivka Keith, Grayson Peters and Ilana Hamer July 21, 2020July 27, 2020
Writer Ari Bornstein holds up an Israeli flag in Jerusalem.
Posted inLocal Voice

Why I am leaving the Bay Area and enlisting in the IDF

Ari Bornstein by Ari Bornstein July 21, 2020June 4, 2021
Kyle Rapps
Posted inJewish Life

‘All you gotta do is listen’: Connecting at a Black-Jewish Shabbat marathon

Photo of Adam Swig by Adam Swig July 20, 2020July 22, 2020
President Andrzej Duda of Poland speaks to the media in front of remains of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 9, 2019. (Photo/JTA-John Macdougall-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Trump’s stamp of approval helped re-elect Poland’s bigoted president

headshot of Fred Rosenbaum by Fred Rosenbaum July 17, 2020
The statue of Catholic missionary Junipero Serra in Golden Gate Park was torn down by protesters in June, 2020. (Photo/Wikimedia-Daderot CC0)
Posted inLocal Voice

Don’t tear down statues of offensive figures, paint them red 

Rosalind Franklin by Rosalind Franklin July 2, 2020
a painting of Joseph standing before Pharaoh and his courtiers
Posted inTorah

Lessons from a Biblical leader who confronted climate change

Adam Cole by Adam Cole July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
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Posted inOpinion

Bright side of the lockdown? Appreciating the small things 

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 23, 2020June 23, 2020
Rainbow-colored challah at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav's 2018 Pride Shabbat. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inPride

Don’t let Pride’s 50th anniversary pass by. Lots of Jewish resources are available.

9mugmychalcopeland by Rabbi Mychal Copeland June 22, 2020
"I’m coming out of the closet. I am Black, I am Jewish, I am queer, and on top of all that, I’m a woman, too," writes Aviva Davis.
Posted inLocal Voice

How I learned to love myself as a Black Jew

Aviva Davis by Aviva Davis June 19, 2020
Left: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured, 1963. (Photo/JTA-American Jewish Historical Society via Wikimedia Commons). Right: A gathering to pay tribute to George Floyd, killed by police in Minneapolis, and Adama Traoré, killed by French police four years ago, Toulouse, France, June 10, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Alain Pitton-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice

Let’s not make America wait again — true equality now!

Rabbi Mordecai Miller by Rabbi Mordecai Miller June 15, 2020

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