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Rabbi Shua Brick in the sanctuary at Oakland's Beth Jacob Congregation, where he has worked since 2020. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inPride

In Oakland, a gay Orthodox rabbi is paving the way for Jews like him

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 11, 2025June 11, 2025

The most striking thing about Rabbi Shua Brick’s nearly five years at Oakland’s Beth Jacob Congregation may be how completely routine they’ve been. That’s not at all a given. Brick, […]

A yeshiva school bus drives through Brooklyn on Sept. 12, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

School vouchers would expand nationwide under proposal cheered by Orthodox groups

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev May 21, 2025May 21, 2025
Meira Academy is housed at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. (Photo/meiraacademy.org)
Posted inBay Area

Facing low enrollment, the Bay Area’s only all-girls Orthodox school will close next year

by Dan Pine June 14, 2023
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a court in Moscow court, April 18, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Sefa Karacan-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Alliance of Orthodox rabbis calls for immediate release of Evan Gershkovich

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 30, 2023
Fans say Miriam Ezagui grew a large following through the authenticity of her daily life. (Photo/JTA-Miriam Ezagui-TikTok)
Posted inTech

With 1.6M followers, TikTok influencer Miriam Ezagui teaches the masses about her Orthodox lifestyle

by Elizabeth Karpen and JTA May 11, 2023
Josephine Park and Sofie Gråbøl in “Attachment.” (Photo/Søren Kirkegaard)
Posted inFilm

There’s now a queer, sexy contender in the Jewish horror movie boom

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward February 6, 2023February 6, 2023
Youth at a JQY drop-in center event. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Queer Youth)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world.’

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi and Forward May 27, 2022May 27, 2022
People protest in reaction to the leak of the Supreme Court draft abortion ruling, in New York City, May 3, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Bryan R. Smith-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

For Orthodox Jewish groups, it’s wait and see on the reversal of abortion rights

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 4, 2022
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a meeting with Sen. Joni Ernst on Capitol Hill, Oct. 1, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Erin Scott-Pool-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Conservative justices grill Maine on policy denying tuition for religious schools

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 8, 2021December 8, 2021
Rivka Taub Rivera, a physical education teacher at a New York City public school, began her maternity leave early to avoid having to comply with a vaccine mandate that went into effect for city teachers on Oct. 4, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Rivera)
Posted inU.S.

These Jewish NYC schoolteachers want a religious exemption from the city’s vaccine mandate

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 4, 2021

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