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      A nurse works with a Covid patient in Fullerton, Dec. 25, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Francine Orr-Los Angeles Times-Getty Images)

      Local Voice

      With the Jewish healing center closing, who will be there for you?

      Everybody comes to the hospital. That’s one thing I sometimes tell my patients at UCSF Health, and today it’s my message to the Bay Area Jewish community.…
      By Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher Jun 16, 2022
      Redding Elementary School principal Maurice Gause (left) and teacher Mai-Tien Nguyen (center) at Redding's fifth-grade graduation, June 1, 2022.

      First Person

      A glimmer of hope from a diverse group of San Francisco fifth-graders

      On June 1, I put down my newspaper — filled with articles about wars, Covid, drought and, most horrid, the massacre of school children — and walked two…
      By Meta Pasternak Jun 15, 2022
      The Hollywood Bowl overflowed with people attending the "Rally for the survival of Israel" in 1967. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection)

      Opinion

      I rallied for Israel's survival in 1967. Now I worry about its future.

      The first time I went to the Hollywood Bowl was 55 years ago, on June 11, 1967. As a 14-year-old, I went to the Bowl with my family for the “Rally for the…
      By Jonathan Jacoby, Forward Jun 13, 2022
      A shot of two of the children’s tattoos in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.”

      TV

      Why ‘Stranger Things’ fans are getting tattoos that evoke the Holocaust

      When you think of numbers tattooed on wrists, you probably think of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors with numbers inked on their forearms. But for some…
      By Mira Fox, Forward Jun 9, 2022
      At a rally for reparations at the African Burial Ground National Monument, July 23, 2021 in New York City. (Photo/Forward-Michael M. Santiago-Getty Images)

      Opinion

      Reparations for Black Californians? Let the Jewish experience guide us.

      Jewish victims of the Holocaust have so far received over $90 billion in reparations, while African Americans who were enslaved and their descendants…
      By Rob Eshman, Forward Jun 9, 2022
      A man walking on cracked land scorched by heat waves in Mumbai, India, May 15, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Satish Bate-Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

      Opinion

      Jewish environmental thought is not ready for the climate crisis

      Smoke from California’s fires is regularly bad enough to tint the sun on the other side of the country. Pakistan and India just experienced a devastating…
      By David Zvi Kalman, JTA Jun 8, 2022
      Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar attend a ceremony marking the handover of items in the Schneerson library to a Chabad-run museum in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Yuri Kadobnov-AFP via Getty Images)

      Letters

      Chabad vs. Russia; Swastika vs. hakenkreuz; etc.

      More on Chabad vs. Russia I read with interest the article about Russia’s ban on the Chabad rabbis who are leading the effort to return the Schneerson…
      By J. Readers Jun 7, 2022
      Israeli soldiers guarding a barrier. (Photo/Forward-iStock)

      Opinion

      It’s time to talk seriously about a Confederation of Israel and Palestine

      It’s hard not to feel hopeless about the prospects for peace in the holy land. It has been that way for a long time. But last week I heard a proposal that…
      By Jodi Rudoren, Forward Jun 6, 2022
      Rabbi Sally Priesand at her 1972 ordination (Photo/File)

      Local Voice

      The first woman rabbi in the U.S. was ordained 50 years ago today

      In 1972, when Sally Priesand was ordained as the first woman rabbi in America, Richard Nixon was president of the United States, Congress voted to send…
      By Rabbi Amy Eilberg Jun 3, 2022
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