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Matzah travels on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inLocal Voice

This year, matzah symbolizes Ukrainian courage and resistance

Rabbi Gedalia Potash by Rabbi Gedalia Potash April 6, 2022
An acorn on the seder plate brings the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Northern California into the Passover story. (Photo/piqsels.com)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why we’ve started putting an acorn on our seder plates 

Rabbi Dev Noily by Rabbi Dev Noily April 5, 2022April 5, 2022
Writer Alice Walker pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in Gaza City, March 10, 2009. (Photo/RNS-AP Photo-Tara Todras-Whitehill)
Posted inOpinion

This isn’t the first time Alice Walker has been disinvited

Rabbi Avi Shafran by Rabbi Avi Shafran and RNS April 4, 2022April 4, 2022
A man floating in the Dead Sea, one of the sites that the Sierra Club's trips to Israel have visited in the past. (Photo/maxpixel.net)
Posted inLetters

Doing right by disabled Jews; Sierra Club, continued; AIPAC and the Dems; etc.

by J. Readers April 4, 2022
French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour delivers a speech during a debate ahead, Oct. 22, 2021 in Rouen, France. (Photo/Forward-Chesnot-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

American Jews ignore a far-right Jewish presidential candidate at their peril

Brad Rothschild by Brad Rothschild and Forward March 31, 2022
J. culture editor Andrew Esensten with his mother, Prof. Sandra Haynes-Esensten, at the Great Pyramid of Giza earlier this month. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inLocal Voice

On vacation in Egypt, I found hope for peace in Israel

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 31, 2022March 31, 2022
The S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Photo/JTA-Ady Manory)
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

Want more Reform rabbis? Stop turning away Jews in interfaith relationships

Edmund Case by Edmund Case and Forward March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing the formation of the Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Oct. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Newsom's office)
Posted inOpinion

California guardrails fail to stop ‘liberated’ anti-Israel curriculum

David Bernstein by David Bernstein March 28, 2022March 28, 2022
Tents are seen along "Skid Row" in downtown Los Angeles, July 8, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Flickr Commons-Russ Allison Loar)
Posted inUncategorized

Why my L.A. synagogue is building a 55-unit housing development for unhoused seniors

Brooke Wirtschafter by Brooke Wirtschafter and JTA March 25, 2022March 28, 2022
A scroll of the Book of Esther. (Photo/RNS-Courtesy Oregon State University-Wikipedia-Creative Commons)
Posted inOpinion

Can rabbis avoid burnout?

by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin and RNS March 24, 2022March 24, 2022

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