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(Illustration/Forward-Nikki Casey
Posted inOpinion

Putin is no match for my Jewish Ukrainian babushka

Florina Rodov by Florina Rodov and Forward June 1, 2022
A wall at ANU—Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv honors Jewish literary greats. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Silow-Carroll)
Posted inCulture

What is a Jew? Israel’s renovated Diaspora museum attempts a three-story answer.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 31, 2022
Crosses sit outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after a gunman killed 21 people inside, May 24, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Yasin Ozturk-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I left Israel to give my kids the American dream. Is this it?

Lior Zaltzman by Lior Zaltzman and JTA May 31, 2022
A man wearing a kippah at a gathering in Berlin to protest antisemitism, April 25, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Carsten Koall-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I’m not Jewish. But being called ‘dirty Jew’ shook me like no other insult.

by Alfred P. Doblin and Forward May 30, 2022May 31, 2022
People react outside the Civic Center after a deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. (Photo/RNS-AP Photo-Dario Lopez-Mills)
Posted inOpinion

If you love the Bible and God, then love children. Live children.

by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin and RNS May 27, 2022
The lake front at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Camp Ramah in the Berkshires
Posted inOpinion

Unless we teach about consent to our teens, sexual assault at Jewish summer camps will continue

Rabbi Daniel Brenner by Rabbi Daniel Brenner and Forward May 26, 2022
A girl cries outside a civic center where grief counseling is offered in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo/JTA-Allison Dinner-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

When it comes to gun control, why can’t the U.S. be more like Israel?

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward May 25, 2022May 25, 2022
Demonstrators at the "Make a Holy Noise for Climate Change" demonstration on Aug. 25 in San Jose as they march to the federal building. (Photo/George Barahona)
Posted inLetters

Jewish climate activists are ‘misguided’; Jewish retirement homes are expensive; etc.

by J. Readers May 25, 2022May 25, 2022
The Ten Commandments Monument at the Arkansas State Capitol. (Photo/Wikimedia-LittleT889 CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inOpinion

Look beyond the Buffalo murders. The extremists’ ideology is mainstream on the right.

Elad Nehorai by Elad Nehorai and Forward May 24, 2022May 24, 2022
Jewish women protesting for abortion rights in the 1970s. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Women International)
Posted inOpinion

I remember the ‘coat hanger’ era of abortions. We can’t go back.

Rabbi Steven Chester by Rabbi Steven Chester May 23, 2022

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