When I go to my doctor, I worry about many things. Will they find anything new or worrisome? Will I have to suffer through a painful shot? Will they realize I don’t floss? I have never worried whether or not my doctor was using the full range of their knowledge to advise and treat me…
I used to be That Guy. I always voted Republican. I watched Fox News. I read clickbait articles on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. I echoed these slanted talking points when I was a Radio show guest prior to the 2016 Presidential General Election. In one sense, I was just your average, conservative, pro-Israel Jewish…
(JTA) — A group of rabbis is urging a Republican politician from Kansas City to stop comparing abortion to the Holocaust. The Rabbinical Association of Kansas City wrote a letter to State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald saying his words “abuse the memory of the murdered victims of the Nazi regime,” the Kansas City Star reported Thursday….
A new book by the outgoing head of Planned Parenthood reports that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump tried to end the agency’s abortion services in exchange for funding, the People reported. In Cecile Richards’ new book, “Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead,” she describes a meeting with the couple…
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine, is defending his decision to hire a conservative writer who once advocated hanging women who get abortions in a tweet, Slate reported. The magazine’s hiring of Kevin Williamson, formerly a writer for the National Review, raised eyebrows when it was revealed last week. Williamson is a fierce anti-Trump…
The Senate voted on a bill Monday to ban most abortions after 20 weeks; it failed along party lines. Just a few days earlier, the latest Pew data estimated that a whopping 83% of Jews believe that in all or most cases, abortion should be legal, putting us at the fourth most pro-choice group surveyed…
Missouri’s strict abortion laws may have finally met their challenge. And it is coming from Satanic worshipers. A woman going by the name “Mary Doe” filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Missouri’s supreme court, arguing that the state’s limitations on abortions violate her religious rights as a member of the Satanic Temple. She was referring to…
Updated 6:00 p.m Anti-abortion activists often compare abortion to the Holocaust, claiming aborted fetuses are like Jews murdered by the Nazis. Jewish groups denounce these analogies regularly. Now, a Trump administration official has gone further, bringing footwear into the discussion. The occasion was the launch of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department…
