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Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-Michael Brochstein-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)

Analysis

ADL call for Trump’s ouster is a watershed for American Jews

The Anti-Defamation League’s call for President Donald Trump to be removed from office is not likely to lead to that result. But it is nonetheless a…
By Rob Eshman, Forward Jan 12, 2021
Burlingame High School students wore school colors, red and black, to a day of "unity against hate," Sept. 10, 2019. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)

Youth Voice

Students are key to fighting antisemitism in high schools

As a leader in my school and a Jewish Student Union liaison for the West Coast, I was contacted by multiple Jewish students who presented me with images…
By Michaela Pelta Jan 11, 2021
"Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers" Renaissance painting by Peter von Cornelius

Religion

Torah offers inspiration for drawing near, even in these times of separation

At this time of social isolation and fragmentation, whom do you need to draw closer to? Vayigash, one of last month’s Torah portions, brings us the…
By Rabbi Amy Eilberg Jan 11, 2021
Trump supporters near the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. Some stormed the building, breaking windows and clashing with police. (Photo/JTA-Shay Horse-NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Opinion

To truly heal as a nation, we must have a deep national reckoning

When it became clear that the Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, had just been elected the first Black senator from the state of…
By Rabbi Sharon Brous, JTA Jan 8, 2021
White supremacists at the "Unite the Right" rally attempt to guard the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 12, 2017 (Photo/JTA-Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)

Letters

Jews are not white supremacists; Congrats to J. on 125 years; etc.

Keep Feinstein Elementary We might be entering the “Reign of Terror” phase of the BLM and Intersectionality movements, as a volunteer-appointed group, the…
By J. Readers Jan 7, 2021
A pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo/JTA-Samuel Corum-Getty Images)

First Person

The prayer for the government comes alive

I remember many years ago feeling ambivalent about the prayer for the government recited in synagogues every Shabbat morning. Were we sanctifying the…
By Rabbi Menachem Creditor, JTA Jan 7, 2021
Mary Ann Salinas holds up two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)

Editorial

After a dark year, looking forward to a time of hope

With 2020 now officially in the history books, wouldn’t it be lovely if last year’s awfulness were behind us? Sadly, it is not. Yet there is reason for…
By J. Editorial Board Jan 6, 2021
Rabbi Lauren Henderson (left) and another student look at source sheets at a Jewish learning session at Base Hillel Chicago, November 2016. (Photo/Couretsy Hillel International)

First Person

Embracing the call to include non-male voices every time I teach Torah

Many of my fellow rabbinical students and friends are enthusiastic about a new strategy for elevating women’s voices in Torah study into the beit midrash…
By Avigayil Halpern, JTA Jan 5, 2021
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Photo/JTA-Courtesy)

Local Voice

I wouldn’t be who I am today without the UK’s late Rabbi Sacks

Recently I watched an online program of learning in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the…
By Rabbi Darren Kleinberg Jan 4, 2021
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