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  I’ve been a Jewish day school teacher for 20 years. I make less money than I did in my 20s

  Jewish education is integral to Jewish continuity. So why are teachers paid so little?

  By Jessica Lissy

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  You don’t have to be in New York to stand up for Israel’s democracy

  Rabbi who survived hostage-taking calls for 'solidarity Sukkot' in small Jewish communities across diaspora

  By Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker Sep 20, 2023 | 3 min read
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  For Lauren Boebert and her appalling ‘Beetlejuice’ antics, the season of repentance is at hand

  The Colorado representative's words and actions have gone well beyond mere hypocrisy

  By Jay Michaelson Sep 20, 2023 | 4 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson I supported Israel’s actions in Gaza in October 2023 — not anymore

  

• Rob Eshman How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of two in Washington, D.C. 

  

• Nora Berman How the Oct. 7 aftermath splintered the New York Dyke March

  

• Dan Perry It looks like Israel totally underestimated Trump

  

• Emily Tamkin This week proved it: Trump’s approach to antisemitism at Columbia is horribly ineffective

  

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  Must I say kaddish for my abusive father?

  I had prayed to God for help. Now, for the first time, I could pray to God from my synagogue.

  By Marcela Kogan Sep 19, 2023 | 3 min read
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  Why do Trump and Netanyahu hate liberal Jews and cozy up to antisemites?

  For the former US president and current Israeli prime minister, any friend of nationalism is a friend of theirs

  By Jay Michaelson Sep 19, 2023 | 4 min read
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  My non-Jewish husband doesn’t fast for Yom Kippur. We spend the day in shul together anyway

  Jews are heading into a new year. But our non-Jewish family members are heading into a new season with us, too.

  By Emily Tamkin Sep 18, 2023 | 3 min read
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  Netanyahu is deeply unpopular in America. So why is he coming to the UN?

  Netanyahu may still find it a pleasant respite from what he faces in Israel.

  By Michael Koplow Sep 18, 2023 | 3 min read
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  Israeli Jews are ‘crying out in pain.’ How will we respond?

  If we want to test whether or not the Jewish people are still one body, we must see how one head responds to the suffering of the other.

  By Rabbi Angela Buchdahl Sep 18, 2023 | 5 min read
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  Social media is a powerful tool to lobby for Jewish divorce. A court nearly took it away

  Without receiving a Jewish divorce document, Jewish law prohibits women from remarrying

  By Michael A. Helfand Sep 15, 2023 | 4 min read
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  For years, I struggled to reconcile my Iranian Jewish identity. The women’s protests have made me whole

  Rosh Hashanah marks one year since the death of Mahsa Jina Amini at the hands of Iran's morality police for 'improperly' wearing her hijab

  By Mary Kohav Sep 14, 2023 | 4 min read
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  ‘Entire neighborhoods were wiped away’ : United Hatzalah medic on Morocco’s devastating earthquake

  More than 2,900 people are dead after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck late Friday evening

  By Yisrael Bitton Sep 13, 2023 | 4 min read