What Jewish law really says about abortion
The religious Jewish community cannot justify staying on the sidelines of the abortion debate, writes a Hasidic health care researcher.test
Abortion
The Latest
-
Opinion -
News Jewish leaders pledge ‘fight’ on abortion following Supreme Court report
With the Supreme Court's conservative majority reportedly poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, many Jewish groups readied to combat the decision
-
Opinion The leaked Roe v. Wade decision is a win for religious fervor
The anti-abortion views are rooted in a specific Christian belief that life begins at conception and that abortion, therefore, is murder. Jews don’t believe that.
-
Fast Forward Kentucky Republican’s anti-abortion speech links Jewish scientists to Nazi killing methods
(JTA) — Jewish women mate for life. Jewish scientists invented the gas that Hitler used to kill them — and the abortion pill, and that might make them the same thing. Which is why Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize. Or something. Kentucky state Rep. Danny Bentley, a Republican, floated all these canards in…
-
Opinion ‘I made the choice’: 9 readers share their (Jewish) abortion stories
The response to the column I wrote about my abortion story was unlike anything I’ve experienced in more than 30 years of journalism. Messages poured in via email and text, on Twitter and on Facebook, from people I’ve known forever and many I’ve never met. One woman I volunteer with at the food pantry just…
-
News My abortion story — because it’s true and we should not be afraid to talk about it
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. I’ve been pregnant twice. I’ve had two abortions. And I have two healthy, wondrous children who recently turned 14. I used to frame my…
-
Fast Forward A new campaign will fight for abortion rights — Jewishly
The CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women has been telling people for months that Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion nationally, would likely be overturned within the year. “They would say ‘that’s not going to happen,’” said Sheila Katz, whose group has long made access to abortion one of its…
-
Opinion I was RBG’s rabbi. Her legacy demands we fight for human dignity and reproductive rights.
Grief is a complicated animal. I have often described its presence to my congregants as a mountain — sometimes it is across from you and you can see it, sometimes you are climbing it, sometimes you have summited it and sometimes it is just right on top of you. We do not control it, we…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
- 2
News State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews
- 3
Fast Forward What does the election of Mark Carney mean for Canadian Jews and Israel?
- 4
News Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Trump wants campuses to fight antisemitism. Here’s how they should actually do it
-
Opinion I’m a rabbi. Here’s why I’m boycotting the megillah reading for Purim this year
-
News ‘Nobody can protect you,’ Columbia dean warns foreign students after Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest
-
Fast Forward Is Israel about to make peace with Lebanon?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
