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Beth Singer (left) with her sisters Amy (center) and Lori (right), who has schizophrenia
Posted inUncategorized

We need to start talking about mental illness in our synagogues

Rabbi Beth Singer by Rabbi Beth Singer May 16, 2018May 17, 2018
Palestinians carrying a wounded man during a protest against Israel near Al Bureij Refugee Camp at the Gaza-Israel border, May 14, 2018 (Photo/JTA-Hassan Jedi-Anadolu Agency-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Friends all over the pro/anti-Israel spectrum, we need to talk about May 14

Molly Freeman by Molly Freeman May 15, 2018May 15, 2018
A bus stop ad in Warsaw for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Photo/Shana Penn)
Posted inHistory

Daffodils replace yellow stars as Poland honors 75th anniversary of ghetto uprising

Shana Penn by Shana Penn May 7, 2018May 7, 2018
The names of lynching victims are inscribed on weathered steel columns that hang from the ceiling at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo/JTA-Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person, Local Voice, Opinion, Travel

The Montgomery lynching memorial is a project of American teshuvah

Rabbi Michael Lezak by Rabbi Michael Lezak May 2, 2018May 3, 2018
Natan Sharansky at his office in Jerusalem, Sept. 2013 (Photo/JTA-Flash90-Miriam Alster)
Posted inLocal Voice, Opinion

How Natan Sharansky changed the game for Israel on campus

Moshe Alfisher by Moshe Alfisher April 27, 2018
Screenshot of Facebook live video of a protest by the IfNotNow group at the San Francisco office of Senator Dianne Feinstein
Posted inOpinion

Why didn’t they teach me about the Occupation? It’s time for NFTY to speak out.

Katie Simpson by Katie Simpson April 26, 2018April 27, 2018
The new population survey of Bay Area Jews found that Jews 18-34 are more likely to attend a Shabbat dinner and attend High Holy Days services than their older counterparts. Pictured: a 2017 Shabbat dinner funded by the organization OneTable (Photo/Natalie Schrik)
Posted inOpinion

Manifesting a broad sense of Jewish belonging in light of population study

Julie Golde by Julie Golde April 25, 2018
Israelis attending a rally marking 22 years since the assassination of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, Nov. 4, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Miriam Alster-Flash90)
Posted inOpinion

Peace in Israel depends on healing left-right rift

Joe Goldman by Joe Goldman April 24, 2018April 24, 2018
Israeli tanks cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (Photo/Wikimedia-Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inIsrael at 70

An eyewitness to Yom Kippur War, Ethiopian aliyah, Soviet Jewry and more

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn April 19, 2018
A graffiti project Oppenheimer created with friends in West Jerusalem to introduce Arabic and other languages spoken in Israel-Palestine into public spaces; a year later it was mostly spray-painted over except for the Hebrew-only sections.
Posted inIsrael at 70

Israel drove me away from Judaism — the struggle to fix it led me back

Rena Oppenheimer by Rena Oppenheimer April 18, 2018April 18, 2018

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