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Sonia Apfelblum, a Holocaust survivor, became a bat mitzvah at Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo on May 12, 2022. (Photo/Miri Ekshtein)
Posted inBay Area

Two Holocaust survivors celebrate long-delayed b’nai mitzvah in San Mateo

by Dan Pine June 21, 2022June 23, 2022
Yanira Quinones, who came with her family from Westchester, recites a Juneteenth poem at the Be'chol Lashon Juneteenth Shabbat in New York City. (Photo/Forward-Julian Voloj-Be'chol Lashon)
Posted inU.S.

‘Delightfully uncomfortable’: Commemorating Juneteenth at 3 Shabbat events

TaRessa Stovall by TaRessa Stovall and Forward June 20, 2022June 20, 2022
The Rev. William Barber (left) and the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, lead a demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13, 2021. (Photo/RNS-Jack Jenkins)
Posted inTorah

What the Torah has to say about the Poor People’s Campaign march this Shabbat

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg June 17, 2022June 17, 2022
Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer, the hazzan at The Kitchen, is the driving force behind the independent San Francisco congregation's new album, "Shabbat in The Kitchen."
Posted inMusic

New album serves up what’s been cooking at The Kitchen

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert June 15, 2022June 22, 2022
The Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity was founded by Rabbi Joshua Lesser in 2001 and was honored as grand marshal of the 2015 Atlanta Pride Parade. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Rose Kantorczyk)
Posted inU.S.

LGBTQ youth face terrifying new legal threats. How should the Jewish community respond?

by Rudy Malcom and Forward June 15, 2022
"Samson Puts Down the Pillars" by James Tissot, ca. 1900. The biblical character of Samson is the best known Nazirite.
Posted inTorah

The spiritually solitary have a place in the Jewish world

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein June 10, 2022June 9, 2022
Rabbi Harold Kravitz in 2013, leading a Torah study group at Adath Jeshurun Congregation. (Photo/Forward-Lee Prohofsky)
Posted inReligion

‘Trying to balance values’: new Conservative head rabbi on intermarriage, inclusion and Israel

by Sheree R. Curry and Forward June 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)
Posted inOpinion

Jewish environmental thought is not ready for the climate crisis. But our tradition is.

David Zvi Kalman by David Zvi Kalman and JTA June 8, 2022
Sandra Razieli officiated Teva Goldstein's bat mitzvah in Maui, Dec. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Anna Kim Photography)
Posted inTravel

Mazel tov in Maui, courtesy of former East Bay tutor  

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
“Na la’amod" means “please stand” in Hebrew, and is a non-gendered way to announce a person about to receive Torah honors. (Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inReligion

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

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