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Buster Posey in 2018 (Photo/Wikimedia)
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Let’s follow Buster Posey’s example in our own marriages

Marcia Naomi Berger by Marcia Naomi Berger January 6, 2022
A healthcare worker prepares a vaccine at a facility operated by the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Rabin Square, Dec. 31, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Miriam Aster-Flash90)
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4th Covid shot increases antibodies fivefold, data from Israel shows

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 5, 2022January 5, 2022
Muslim volunteers assemble snack and hygiene packs at Masjid-e-Mohammedi in Fremont, part of a day of cooperation between the mosque and Temple Beth Torah, May 2021. (Photo/Mufaddal Ezzy)
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From conflict to cooperation: Lessons from the road to Muslim-Jewish partnership

by Ari Gordon and RNS January 3, 2022January 3, 2022
Saul Bellow in 1976 (Photo/U.S. State Department)
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Genius, jerk, misogynist, everyman — the many lives of Saul Bellow

by Julia M. Klein and Forward January 3, 2022January 3, 2022
(Photo/Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Is the Christmas tree a religious symbol under the law? What about a menorah?

Michael A. Helfand by Michael A. Helfand and Forward December 15, 2021December 17, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Photo/Pixabay)
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The Met is erasing the Sackler name. Tel Aviv University’s medical school should be next.

Nora Berman by Nora Berman and Forward December 14, 2021
Charlotte Seeleman Shlenker (1838-1920), the author's great-great-grandmother, was the daughter of Magdalena Gugenheim Seeleman, who showed up in the 1860 Louisiana slave census (left) as having owned a 29-year-old woman. Charlotte's husband, Isaac, offered a "girl" for sale in an advertisement dated April 10, 1861. (Photos/JTA-Courtesy Barry Block)
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My Jewish ancestors owned slaves. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Rabbi Barry H. Block by Rabbi Barry H. Block and JTA December 13, 2021December 13, 2021
Anti-Defamation CEO Jonathan Greenblatt (left) and Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. (Photos/File)
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ADL spars with CAIR over local Muslim leader’s remarks on ‘polite Zionists’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 13, 2021December 13, 2021
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz pictured on Aug. 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Avshalom Sassoni-Flash90)
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Israel’s health minister wants to make it easier for women to get abortions

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 2, 2021
(From left) Cissie Swig, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sam Lauter (in back) and Rabbi Sydney Mintz at the White House Hanukkah party, Dec. 1, 2021. (Photo/Instagram)
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Local Jewish leaders rep Bay Area at White House Hanukkah party

by J. Staff and JTA December 2, 2021December 3, 2021

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