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I served in Afghanistan as an Army chaplain. Jewish wisdom can help us process what comes after withdrawal
When the US was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, I was the same age as the current cadets at West Point are now.
More than 1,000 ‘Rabbis for Repro’ work for abortion rights. Their fight just got tougher.
The group, launched last year by the National Council of Jewish Women, aims to put a Jewish, religious face on abortion rights activism.
Yiddish Jokes with Ruth Kohn: “The Eulogy” (with English subtitles)
The anecdote, told at a talent show at the Yiddish Vokh in Copake, NY, reflects the irony characteristic of East European Jewish humor.
The Yiddish professor and female Orthodox rabbi sharing Yiddish children’s literature with the world
How Miriam Udel, a self-described Hebrew school nerd, became the greatest champion of Jewish children’s stories written by secular leftists.
For the Conservative movement, an audit of ethics policies might be overdue
People who have complained about bad behavior by Conservative rabbis wonder whether the Rabbinical Assembly can change its ways.
The letter some of my rabbinical students wrote shows a lack of empathy—with Jews
This is an open letter from the dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Rabbi Bradley S. Artson. It comes in response to a letter signed by scores of rabbinic and cantorial students at Ziegler and other schools, which the Forward published on May 13.
A non-Jewish Iranian opposition group reaches out to American Jews
Some Jewish community leaders in Los Angeles said American Jews should begin a new public dialogue about the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses.
‘A lot of work to do’: A Black female rabbi on the anti-racist progress the Jewish community has, and hasn’t, made
“Race is new for white people, and that’s part of the problem. Jewish whiteness and the Jewish relationship to racism is different.”
After the Boulder shooting, I ask the Four Questions
These past few days, as Passover approaches, I am thinking of the Four Children of the Haggadah.
Meet the rabbinic breakout star on the Clubhouse app
‘Clubhouse and Judaism go together like peanut butter and chocolate,’ says Rabbi David Wolpe, who teaches Torah on the audio-only networking app.