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With an emboldened Netanyahu ready to do almost anything to get back into power, Israel's own judicial system – and the protections it provides – could follow suit
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Opinion 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.'
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News Activist Ana Maria Archila is running for lieutenant governor of New York with the help of progressive Jews
Archila, who gained national attention when she protested the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sees ‘light at end of the tunnel’ in Supreme Court abortion ruling
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Looking Forward ‘We don’t live in the abstract’: 3 Jewish women on the fall of Roe v. Wade
Forward editors process the reversal of 50 years of abortion access.
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News This rabbi made the religious case for abortion 30 years ago — it didn’t go well.
Rabbi Robert Loewy argued banning abortion violated religious freedom in 1990, before it was a popular take on the issue
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Fast Forward ‘After Shabbat, we will act’: American Jews gear up for wave of post-Roe activism
While the majority of American Jews will fiercely protest the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, a rift could emerge among the Orthodox
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News ‘Abortion access is a Jewish value’: Reaction to Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade
Here’s what the Jewish community is saying about the end to a constitutionally protected right to abortion
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