Sheila Katz
By Sheila Katz
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Opinion Last Rosh Hashanah, we lost RBG. This year, her legacy is in jeopardy
When people across the country woke up on Wednesday, they opened their eyes to a new era of injustice. As of midnight Central Time, legal abortion was effectively banned in the state of Texas, and it’s clear the rest of our country could be headed in that direction. Although the U.S. Supreme Court had the…
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Opinion Biden has taken the first steps on reproductive justice. Jews must push him further.
On Thursday, the Biden administration took action to expand access to reproductive health care, including abortion. These steps include rescinding the global gag rule and restoring federal funding to organizations abroad that provide abortion services or do related work, and directing the Department of Health and Human Services to review Title X, the first step…
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Life For The Sins We Have Committed At The Border
Every year, on Yom Kippur, we Jews stand in the sanctuary, beating our breasts as we enumerate our collective sins: We are guilty. We have betrayed. We have stolen. We have spoken falsely. The words of the liturgy are in the first person plural, meant to invite us to look both at our individual misdeeds…
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Life Changes To Title IX Will Assist Sexual Assault Perpetrators And Silence Their Victims
Recently, we read in the book of Genesis about Dinah, who was kidnapped and raped by the prince of Shechem. With no voice and no way out, Dinah was the victim of a man who had a lot of political power and social capital. Afterward, the prince goes to Dinah’s home to ask her parents…
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