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  Your guide to 2023’s Jewish Tony Awards nominees

  Featuring Micaela Diamond, Tom Stoppard, Brandon Uranowitz and Jessica Hecht

  By DenBerg

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  Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

  Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light

  By Laurie Marhoefer Jun 6, 2023 | 5 min read
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  What makes a ‘Jewish’ politician? 

  From Jewish summer camp to the struggle for Soviet Jewry, Zev Yaroslavsky’s new memoir describes the experiences that shaped his values

  By Rob Eshman Jun 6, 2023 | 4 min read

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• Alyssa Katz As editor-in-chief, I’m finding my way Forward (and back)

  

• Rob Eshman UpScrolled is a social media haven for unspeakable antisemitism. How does that help Palestinians?

  

• Dan Perry The Israeli government wants you to stop calling Oct. 7 a ‘massacre.’ Yes, really.

  

• Emily Tamkin In Trump’s instinct to punish and desecrate, a rejection of the values of King David

  

• Jay Michaelson Tragically, ‘genocide’ has become a meaningless word

  

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  Why I, as an Orthodox rabbi, am committed to LGBTQ+ inclusion

  It’s a religious imperative for my fellow Orthodox Jews to fully embrace LGBTQ+ people

  By Rabbi Jonathan Leener Jun 2, 2023 | 4 min read
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  The debt ceiling compromise reflects deep Jewish wisdom

  President Biden and Speaker McCarthy were right to compromise, writes a rabbi.

  By Rabbi Brad Hirschfield May 31, 2023 | 3 min read
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  I’m a rabbi at Princeton. Our campus is not a ‘hotbed of antisemitism’

  Check with college students, not social media

  By Rabbi Gil Steinlauf May 31, 2023 | 4 min read
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  When a breast cancer diagnosis knocked me down, a network of Jewish women lifted me up

  I was stunned by the number of friends my age who sent me messages to tell me they had recently gone through the same thing

  By Karen E. H. Skinazi May 26, 2023 | 4 min read
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  The White House antisemitism plan is full of good ideas. Will it actually help Jews?

  Combatting American antisemitism will require fixing our broken society

  By Laura E. Adkins May 26, 2023 | 4 min read
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  Israel is failing to protect its Arab citizens

  The rate of violent crime in Arab communities has soared since Netanyahu's far-right government took power

  By Abe Silberstein May 26, 2023 | 5 min read
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  This Shavuot, we are in the golden age of female Torah study

  There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable

  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen May 25, 2023 | 4 min read
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  On the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, DEI is under attack

  What part of diversity, equity or inclusion could any decent human being possibly be against?

  By Robin Washington May 25, 2023 | 3 min read