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black and white photo of two adult men, three adult women, and two young boys trekking through the desert
Posted inLocal Voice

Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews deserve to be counted

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin September 17, 2019September 16, 2019
Image of Jeffrey Epstein, cloaked in shadow
Posted inOpinion

After Epstein: It’s time to extinguish child trafficking

Amy Neustein by Amy Neustein September 16, 2019September 16, 2019
Members of the Jewish group, IfNotNow protest Breitbart News and Stephen Bannon in Beverly Hills, Dec. 4, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Ronen Tivony-NurPhoto)
Posted inAnalysis

The new Jewish left is the product of a peace process that failed

by JTA and Andrew Silow-Carroll September 13, 2019September 13, 2019
The Adas Israel Congregation in Duluth, Minn., burned down of yet unknown causes, Sept. 9, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Duluth News Tribune Screenshot)
Posted inFirst Person

My family synagogue burned down in Minnesota this week. We lost much more than a building.

Sarah Rose by Sarah Rose and JTA September 11, 2019
two men walk through bleak rows of small white tents
Posted inHigh Holidays

High Holidays are a time to help refugees — including the one inside of you

Rabbi Lee Bycel by Rabbi Lee Bycel September 10, 2019September 9, 2019
JCC Krakow director Jonathan Ornstein shows off the center's preschool books. (Photo/Gunda Trepp)
Posted inLocal Voice

Up close and personal with Poland’s Jewish revival

Susan Moldaw by Susan Moldaw September 9, 2019September 9, 2019
President Donald Trump walks at the White House, Aug. 20, 2019. (JTA/Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

March of the Living propaganda; HAMAQOM is a silly name; etc.

by J. Readers September 6, 2019
Part of the anti-Semitic flyer found at multiple locations in Novato (Photo/Courtesy Matt Elkins)
Posted inEditorial

Can it happen here? Sadly, it already is.

by J. Editorial Board September 5, 2019September 5, 2019
Yiscah Smith, now a teacher at Pardes in Jerusalem, uses her journey to authentic living and experiences as a trans woman to inspire her students. (Photo/Courtesy Smith)
Posted inFirst Person

After decades as an Orthodox man, I’m now the religious woman I was born to be

Yiscah Smith by JTA and Yiscah Smith September 3, 2019September 5, 2019
When you assume a woman only converted to get married, you are forsaking the mitzvah of welcoming the stranger, writes a Jewish Orthodox convert. (Photo/JTA-Olga Efimova-EyeEm)
Posted inOpinion

Stop saying women convert to Judaism just for marriage

Kylie Ora Lobell by JTA and Kylie Ora Lobell August 30, 2019

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