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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
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands while walking through the colonnade prior to an Oval Office meeting at the White House, March 25, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Drew Angerer-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Trump is undermining America’s future relationship with Israel

Susie Gelman by Susie Gelman December 23, 2019
An ad for the Maccabi Games in the Budapest metro (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inLetters

Budapest Jews are doing just fine; Trump’s Title VI EO, for and against

by J. Readers December 20, 2019
The Bay Area rabbinic delegation at the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel’s south with Ami Shaked, supervisor of the site (at front in tan shirt and cap).
Posted inEditorial

Even in the darkness of 2019, the Jewish spirit shines

by J. Editorial Board December 19, 2019December 19, 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)
Posted inFirst Person

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."
Posted inHanukkah

A Sephardic girl with a bubbe? Disney blew it with their first Jewish princess.

Adam Eilath by Adam Eilath December 17, 2019December 17, 2019
"Building the Ark" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inLocal Voice

Noah adapted to climate catastrophe; now it’s our turn

Liore Milgrom-Gartner by Liore Milgrom-Gartner December 16, 2019December 17, 2019
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, speaking at the J Street National Conference in 2018 (Photo/JTA-Michael Brochstein-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

Back-and-forths continue as our readers debate J Street, settlements

by J. Readers December 13, 2019December 17, 2019
Donald C. Cutler, proudly disloyal Jew.
Posted inOpinion

Trump’s Title VI order merely protects pro-Israel conservatives from being offended

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler December 12, 2019December 17, 2019

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