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Fast Forward Jewish fertility group is helping Alabama clients undergo IVF elsewhere after state’s explosive ‘fetal personhood’ ruling
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Opinion Does Torah allow fighting back — with folding chairs?
Unprovoked attack on Black boat captain fuels a melee — and hilarity online
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Alabama museum removes quotation by Nazi scientist
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News There are no Jews in the Alabama legislature. That could soon change.
Raised in Manhattan, Phil Ensler was inspired by the civil rights movement to move to the Deep South and work on racial justice issues
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Opinion 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
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Fast Forward Video shows Alabama teens drawing swastikas on boy’s back
(JTA) — A video showing a group of Alabama teenagers drawing swastikas on a boy’s back was posted to Snapchat. A group of boys are seen laughing at a shirtless boy, a student at Mountain Brook Schools, after drawing two large black swastikas and the word “heil.” Some of the students attend Mountain Brook, the…
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News Letter from Huntsville: ‘Our souls have been assaulted’
I am the rabbi of Huntsville’s Temple B’nai Sholom, Alabama’s oldest synagogue in continuous use. Over the first two nights of Passover, vandals defaced two congregations in Huntsville, The Etz Chayim Congregation and Chabad of Huntsville, with anti-Semitic graffiti. Although my temple was not attacked, our souls have been assaulted. As one of my congregants…
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