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  I ran for my life from the Highland Park shooting. It will haunt me forever.

  The first July 4 parade since 2019 promised a return to normalcy. Instead, it began a surreal, traumatizing ordeal.

  By Michael L. Millenson

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  Unilever’s decision to sell Ben & Jerry’s in the West Bank is not a win for Israel

  The settler movement is the true victor in the latest debacle over ice cream

  By Dany Bahar Jul 1, 2022 | 3 min read
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  After the SCOTUS school prayer decision, what comes next for American Jews?

  The ruling walks the line between ensuring all citizens are both free to exercise their faith and free from religious coercion.

  By Michael A. Helfand Jun 30, 2022 | 5 min read

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  Coach Kennedy being allowed to pray at the 50-yard line is not good for Jews

  The recent Supreme Court ruling allowing a coach to pray on the field makes it even harder to advocate for minority-faith students

  By Guila Franklin Siegel Jun 30, 2022 | 3 min read
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  The Supreme Court’s decision on the EPA is devastating. Jews must hold that grief as we forge ahead

  As many Jews double down on confronting climate change, we must accept both the brokenness and wholeness of this painful time

  By Rabbi Jennie Rosenn Jun 30, 2022 | 3 min read
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  The San Antonio migrant deaths should remind Jews: We were once smuggled in, too

  ‘Plenty of people killed, nobody knows about it, but God and the water’

  By Rob Eshman Jun 28, 2022 | 3 min read
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  I should never have experienced rape and illegal abortion. Neither should anyone else

  Jews must unite against white supremacy to fight the abortion ban, which disproportionately harms Black women

  By TaRessa Stovall Jun 28, 2022 | 4 min read
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  I’m glad Coach Kennedy can pray at the 50-yard line

  The Supreme Court's ruling that a coach can pray on the football field is a win for religious liberty — and good for Jews

  By Laura E. Adkins Jun 27, 2022 | 3 min read
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  The Jewish stake in Jan. 6 is bigger than you think

  In a world when common sense gun laws and Roe v. Wade are overturned, do facts still matter?

  By Rob Eshman Jun 26, 2022 | 4 min read
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  The underground abortion my mother had, and the one she didn’t

  'To pay tribute to my father, I got a foster-care license and fostered seven children over the better part of a decade. I saw firsthand what happens to unplanned babies born to people who should not be parents.'

  By Courtenay Edelhart Jun 26, 2022 | 4 min read
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  A Muslim and a Jew face the Bible Belt: Meet the only two doctors in Alabama providing gender-affirming care to trans youth

  Their work is under assault by the Alabama legislature, which recently passed a law criminalizing trans health care

  By Nora Berman Jun 23, 2022 | 7 min read