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UnXeptabler rally
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How Israel’s strongest partisans destroyed global support for Israel

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson June 29, 2026June 29, 2026

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. No one has done more damage to Israel than […]

Rabbi Stuart Kelman in March 2025. (Courtesy)
Posted inLetters

Stanford graduation walkout, remembering Rabbi Kelman, kidney donation

by J. Readers June 24, 2026June 24, 2026
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges lawmakers to reject the Iran nuclear deal during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol, March 3, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I helped sell Obama’s Iran deal. Its critics owe us all an explanation.

Steve Rabinowitz by Steve Rabinowitz June 24, 2026June 24, 2026
Left: Portraits painted by Dina Babbit at Auschwitz, Four of the portraits that Dina Babbitt painted in Auschwitz. (Courtesy Rafael Medoff). Right: A storage jar made by Dave the Potter. (Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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Museums should return art created under coercion — whether in slavery or Auschwitz

Rafael Medoff by Rafael Medoff June 23, 2026June 23, 2026
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I’ve spent a decade building acceptance for LGBTQ Orthodox Jews. Now I’m watching it unravel.

by Saundra Sterling Epstein June 18, 2026June 18, 2026
The raucous world of "Yes" is unsparing in its satire of a country partying near the abyss. (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
Posted inOpinion

Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity

A.J. Goldmann by A.J. Goldmann June 17, 2026June 17, 2026
Images of Albert Einstein and Emma Goldman are featured in "Ask Jewish Lives," an AI bot that bases its conversations on the "Jewish L:ives" series of biographies. (Dov Abramson Studio)
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Want to ask Einstein about Zionism? A new AI tool lets users chat with Jewish history

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 16, 2026June 17, 2026
Members of the recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the “San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.” (Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inLocal Voice

Remembering the rabbis who comforted gay Jews at the height of the AIDS crisis

Robb Layne by Robb Layne June 15, 2026June 16, 2026
Catherine Crystal Foster (left) and Karen Kronick trace a sanitary pad template during Congregation Beth Am's Mitzvah Day in March. (Todd Kaye)
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Fighting period poverty and menstrual ignorance, one pad at a time

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 15, 2026June 15, 2026
The San Leandro High School campus in July 2015. (newtonapple via Wikimedia Commons, CC 2.0 BY 2.0)
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School antisemitism lawsuits, for and against

by J. Readers June 12, 2026June 11, 2026

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