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A pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo/JTA-Samuel Corum-Getty Images)

First Person

The prayer for the government comes alive

I remember many years ago feeling ambivalent about the prayer for the government recited in synagogues every Shabbat morning. Were we sanctifying the…
By Rabbi Menachem Creditor, JTA Jan 7, 2021
Mary Ann Salinas holds up two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)

Editorial

After a dark year, looking forward to a time of hope

With 2020 now officially in the history books, wouldn’t it be lovely if last year’s awfulness were behind us? Sadly, it is not. Yet there is reason for…
By J. Editorial Board Jan 6, 2021
Rabbi Lauren Henderson (left) and another student look at source sheets at a Jewish learning session at Base Hillel Chicago, November 2016. (Photo/Couretsy Hillel International)

First Person

Embracing the call to include non-male voices every time I teach Torah

Many of my fellow rabbinical students and friends are enthusiastic about a new strategy for elevating women’s voices in Torah study into the beit midrash…
By Avigayil Halpern, JTA Jan 5, 2021
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Photo/JTA-Courtesy)

Local Voice

I wouldn’t be who I am today without the UK’s late Rabbi Sacks

Recently I watched an online program of learning in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the…
By Rabbi Darren Kleinberg Jan 4, 2021

The Matzo Chronicles

I’ve made my resolutions, but will I be in the 8 percent?

Jews are lucky. They get two New Year’s observances. And two chances to make New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately, they also get two chances to break…
By Karen Galatz Dec 28, 2020
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First Person

We've spent every Christmas with our close Catholic friends

When I was 3 years old, I yelled at a kind, unsuspecting, probably very stressed-out retail worker at a Macy’s for asking me what I wanted for Christmas.…
By Sarah Jae Leiber, JTA Dec 23, 2020
Materials used to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)

Religion

Which blessing should you say when you get the Covid-19 vaccine?

Jewish liturgy offers blessings for seemingly every occasion, from ritual moments (such as lighting Shabbat candles) to sublime experiences (seeing a…
By Laura E. Adkins, JTA Dec 23, 2020
The Maccabees depicted in a page from a 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript.

Letters

Hanukkah isn't 'woke'; Antifa dangers downplayed; BDS; etc.

Antifa’s ‘street thugs’ Your editorial “We need a big-tent antifascist movement” (Dec. 9) properly warned of the potential danger of the Proud Boys, one…
By J. Readers Dec 18, 2020
Nissim Black: "I usually daven with an early morning minyan, and then I usually learn for a while. And then I go out to the field and meditate." (Photo/JTA-Tziporah Litman, courtesy of Black)

The Sit-Down

Hasidic rapper Nissim Black on his creative process and Covid recovery

Nissim Black is passionately, assuredly, confidently in love with God. Not in love with Judaism, though he’s fastidious in prayer and observance. Not in…
By Laura E. Adkins, JTA Dec 17, 2020
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