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Julius Silber (Courtesy Katie Figulla)
Posted inFirst Person

The spy who fell off my family tree — and nearly got away

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent January 21, 2020January 27, 2020
Journalists visiting a renovated barrack at Auschwitz, Dec. 1, 2016 (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
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As Holocaust memories fade, our world becomes more perilous

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
Two Jewish boys watching the sunset in the West Bank. (JTA/Laura Ben-David)
Posted inUncategorized

U.S. policy on Israeli settlements is the right call

Martin Wasserman by Martin Wasserman January 14, 2020January 14, 2020
(JTA/Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

As a black Jew, I’m being forced to walk a tightrope after the Monsey attack

Shekhiynah Larks by Shekhiynah Larks January 8, 2020January 8, 2020
Rev. Kaloma Smith addresses hundreds of people who gathered Jan. 5 at University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto after the predominantly black church was vandalized. (AME Zion Facebook)
Posted inLocal Voice

Standing in solidarity with others strengthens us when we must stand up for ourselves

by David Waksberg January 7, 2020January 8, 2020
Iraqi Jews at the tomb of Ezekiel in Kifl, Iraq, in 1932. (Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection/Library of Congress)
Posted inUncategorized

Calling it ‘anti-Semitism’ is itself a form of racism

Loolwa Khazzoom by Loolwa Khazzoom January 7, 2020January 7, 2020
Ram Dass, right, born Richard Albert, with his friend Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. (Joan Halifax/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

Discovering Ram Dass the Jew

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz December 24, 2019
A memorial for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. (Photo/JTA-Hane Grace Yagel)
Posted inUncategorized

Up close and personal with Pittsburgh

Stephanie Levin by Stephanie Levin December 19, 2019
A damaged Torah scroll at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills. (Twitter-@samyerbi)
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The Torah at my childhood synagogue was desecrated. But we’re still standing.

Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh by Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh December 18, 2019December 18, 2019
Rebekah, princess of the Sephardic kingdom of Galonia, on a very special Hanukkah episode of "Elena of Avalor."
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A Sephardic girl with a bubbe? Disney blew it with their first Jewish princess.

Adam Eilath by Adam Eilath December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

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