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Posted inLocal Voice

Why we at Sha’ar Zahav support reparations for slavery

by Deborah Levy March 1, 2023March 27, 2023
Rachel Sennott (left) and Madeline Grey DeFreece in "Tahara," one of several movies you could watch instead of "You People."
Posted inUncategorized

Seven movies about Black-Jewish relations to watch instead of ‘You People’

Rebecca PierceLexi Leban by Rebecca Pierce and Lexi Leban February 20, 2023February 22, 2023
Tova Ricardo
Posted inPoetry

A Black History Month poem: i think a lot about color

Tova Ricardo by Tova Ricardo February 16, 2023February 16, 2023
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)
Posted inUncategorized

Russia’s Jews are caught in the messy politics of Putin’s war

by Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and Forward February 15, 2023February 15, 2023
This billboard at 52nd St. and Telegraph Ave. in Oakland paid for by JewBelong originally said, "You don't need to go to law school to know anti-Zionism is antisemitism," but was vandalized by an anonymous group of Jewish activists to read, "You don't need to go to law school to know anti-Zionism is anti-racism."  (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inLetters

Defining antisemitism; Billboards ‘deserve to be defaced’; Etc.

by J. Readers February 14, 2023
Left: A view of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama (Photo/JTA-Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post-Getty Images); Right: "Moses on Mount Sinai" by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895-1900 (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inFirst Person

From Moses to Memphis, the work of liberation remains unfinished

Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein by Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein and JTA February 13, 2023
photo of a person's hands clasped in the shape of a heart
Posted inYouth Voice

10 suggestions for Random Acts of Kindness Week

Karen Glenn by Karen Glenn February 13, 2023
(Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel; Images/Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1953, Creative Commons)
Posted inOpinion

Can a Jewish fan watch the Super Bowl with a clean conscience? The rabbis had thoughts.

Rabba Yaffa Epstein by Rabba Yaffa Epstein and JTA February 10, 2023February 10, 2023
Luda Shuster's parents in the Soviet Union, ca. 1950
Posted inOpinion

A lifetime of anti-Jewish propaganda — from Stalinist Russia to Kanye West

Luda Shuster by Luda Shuster February 7, 2023February 7, 2023
a photo of a pair of calloused, dirty hands
Posted inColumns

Workaholics of the world, unite!

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz February 6, 2023

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