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San Jose Fire Station 3, where Casilia Loessberg used to work. (Photo/San Jose Fire Department)
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Ex–firefighter’s lawsuit says her superior was a ‘known Nazi sympathizer’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 21, 2023March 22, 2023

Updated Mar. 22 at 3:00 p.m. A former San Jose firefighter is suing the city, claiming she was the target of racist and antisemitic attacks, was sexually harassed by her […]

Cantor Nathan Lam during his first service at Temple of the Arts, March 25, 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inOpinion

Cantor in sexual misconduct scandals should not lead Yom Kippur services in L.A.

Rafael Medoff by Rafael Medoff October 3, 2022October 3, 2022
Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community’s synagogue in Hanover, Germany in December 2016. (Photo/JTA-Julian Stratenschulte-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Institutions unravel amid mounting sexual harassment scandal in German liberal Judaism

by Toby Axelrod and JTA May 25, 2022May 25, 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 inU.S.

Ethics probe: Reform rabbinical group finds late professor ducked sexual abuse complaints

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA December 23, 2021
An all-rabbi Dungeons & Dragons campaign pits a diverse group of Jewish clergy against skeletons, giants and other fantasy creatures. (Photo/JTA-Screenshot)
Posted inGames

Dungeons & Dragons has united a diverse group of rabbis. But their commitment to social justice has faced a challenge.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten and JTA September 9, 2021
Rabbi Mary Zamore, the executive director of the Women's Rabbinic Network (Photo/JTA-Steve Shawl)
Posted inU.S.

The Reform movement is investigating itself over history of rabbinic sexual misconduct

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA August 13, 2021August 13, 2021
(Photo/Forward-iStock)
Posted inReligion

For Conservative Judaism, an overdue audit of sexual ethics policy

by Molly Boigon and Forward June 1, 2021
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman is accused of sexual harassment of three women, including one who was a minor at the time.
Posted inU.S.

Reform rabbinic giant first disciplined in 2000 now accused of ‘sexually predatory’ behavior

Hannah Dreyfus by Hannah Dreyfus and Forward April 28, 2021April 28, 2021
A sign from a protest against sexual harassment in the workplace in Chicago, Sept. 18, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Joshua Lott-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Men in Jewish leadership (like me) need to hold each other accountable

by David Cohen April 26, 2021
Jodi Kantor's new book "She Said," written with her New York Times colleague Megan Twohey, gives readers an inside look at the reporting of the Harvey Weinstein story and others integral to the #MeToo movement. (Photo/JTA-Martin Schoeller-70 Faces Media Montage)
Posted inBooks

Jodi Kantor on what’s changed since her Weinstein story unleashed a #MeToo wave

by Emily Burack and JTA October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

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