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After protest, Zoom pulls plug on San Francisco State event with Leila Khaled
Zoom announced late this afternoon that San Francisco State University will not be allowed to use its videoconferencing platform to host an event tomorrow featuring Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled because her participation in the virtual event violates company policy. “Zoom is committed to supporting the open exchange of ideas and conversations, subject to certain limitations…
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RBG cherished the separation of church and state. Will her potential replacement do the same?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing on Friday, September 18 elicited nationwide mourning and an immediate promise by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to vote on a Trump-nominated justice despite the fast-approaching November elections. Approval of Trump’s appointee would cement a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. Democrats and a few Senate Republicans have…
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Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg having a Jewish burial? Here’s what we know so far.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s private funeral service in the Supreme Court on Wednesday was presided over by Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. “Justice Ginsburg, l’dor v’dor, from generation to generation,” said Holtzblatt. She also sang Psalm 23 in Hebrew. Rabbi Holtzblatt’s husband, Ari, was a clerk to Justice Ginsburg in…
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L.A. congregations create a pandemic-safe ‘shofar wave’ across the city
On Sunday afternoon at the busy intersection of Pico Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, Temple Beth Am congregant Sandra Lepson was among those who’d turned out to hear the shofar in a public space with other people while maintaining social distancing. “I thought this was a really cool idea and I wanted to be witness…
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‘A modern prophet:’ How rabbis reacted to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
Addressing her congregation virtually on the first morning of Rosh Hashanah, Cantor Meredith Greenberg of Temple Ner Tamid, a Reform congregation in Bloomfield, N.J., sang the traditional blessing that precedes the reading of the haftarah. But what happened next was anything but traditional. Instead of chanting that week’s haftarah portion, Greenberg and the synagogue’s rabbi,…
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ICYMI: Catch up with the Forward’s coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
We know many Forward readers were offline for Rosh Hashanah and may not have seen our coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death over the weekend. So we put together this guide to the stories we have published — and some of our favorite Jewish stories from while the justice is alive. Like most news outlets,…
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I wrote a song about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and she gave it her ‘hechsher’
The 8×11 tan envelope came via regular mail, which felt old-fashioned, even archaic. Because most of what arrives snail mail is junk mail at this point, I didn’t pay attention at first. Then I saw the return address: Supreme Court of the United States. Inside I found a document I’ll treasure to this day: the…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words: highlights from the Forward’s 2018 interview
In February 2018, Jane Eisner, then Editor-in-Chief of The Forward, interviewed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Adas Israel Synagogue in Washington D.C. Ginsburg died on Friday at 87 after repeated battles with cancer. Here are some highlights from her nearly 90-minute conversation with Eisner. You can watch the video of the interview here….
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. Here are some of our favorite Jewish stories from her life.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away at the age of 87. The cause was metastatic pancreatic cancer. Over the years, the Forward collected some remarkable stories of Ginsburg’s life, as they related both to her story judicial career and her status as a pop culture icon: “Notorious R.B.G.” Here are some of…
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A former Trump official dreamed up a George Soros-funded ‘coup’ conspiracy that is spreading online
An essay written by a former national security adviser to President Trump about an impending Democratic coup tied to George Soros has swept online spaces popular with conspiracy theorists and QAnon believers, and also penetrated more mainstream publications over the last two weeks. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank that studies extremism,…
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‘Car Nidre:’ These synagogues are taking High Holidays to the parking lot
Parking lots get a bad rap. There’s even a Joni Mitchell song about how awful they are: “Don’t it always seem to go/ That you don’t know what you’ve got/ ‘Til it’s gone/They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot.” And the 2019 movie “Isn’t it Romantic?” Rebel Wilson played a lovelorn architect whose parking…
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