This is the Forward’s coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. She has spent much of her legal career advocating for gender equality and women’s rights. Visit here to stay up on all…
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News What a post-Ruth Bader Ginsburg court will mean for issues Jews care about
It’s clear that an already conservative-leaning Supreme Court will lean even more conservative once the Senate approves President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the seat occupied by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died last week. On the face of it, conservatives will hold a 6-3 majority in major cases, a far stronger position than their previous…
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Fast Forward Meet the rabbi who led Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral service
Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt spoke and sang at Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral Wednesday in the Supreme Court. “This was Justice Ginsburg’s life’s work, to insist that the Constitution deliver on its promise that ‘We the People’ would include all the people,” she said. “She carried out that work in every chapter of her life.” She also…
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Culture Why did The Guardian say Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘abandoned’ her faith?
In the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, obituaries across the country lauded the jurist for her contributions to America’s judiciary system and civic life. But one contained a claim about Ginsburg’s personal life that left some Jews puzzled, and others outraged. The Guardian’s September 18 obituary initially declared that the justice had “abandoned her…
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Community Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ‘Yom Kippur Controversy’
In 2003, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, fell on October 6. That year, October 6 was also the first Monday in October. By federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court term commences on the first Monday in October of each year. And since 1975, the Court opened each term with oral argument…
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Community When RBG came to see Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
Many stars came to visit our shtetl, including Lin Manuel Miranda, Bette Midler, Hugh Jackman, Hillary Clinton, to name a few, but no night did the stars shine as bright as the night when Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg came to visit. Our National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, directed by Joel…
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Community Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Jewish legacy
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was shaped by her Jewish heritage. Although not religious, she was steeped in the tradition and found great wisdom in it. Indeed, she introduced me to a quote from parshah Shoftim that is a guiding light: “justice, justice shall you pursue.” To put this powerful quote into context, consider how Shoftim…
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Life ‘The taste of disappointment:’ Learning about the loss of RBG over brisket and honey cake
Mark Hetfield didn’t know why he was making a tuna casserole for Rosh Hashanah dinner, traditionally brisket and chicken, on Friday night. But in the end he was glad he did. In the middle of their meal, he and his family and friends learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Tuna casserole, in turns out,…
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News Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg having a Jewish burial? Here’s what we know so far.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s private funeral service in the Supreme Court on Wednesday was presided over by Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. “Justice Ginsburg, l’dor v’dor, from generation to generation,” said Holtzblatt. She also sang Psalm 23 in Hebrew. Rabbi Holtzblatt’s husband, Ari, was a clerk to Justice Ginsburg in…
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