Anxious? Angry? Here’s Why We Have to Keep Going.
By Melissa Cohen (Kveller via JTA) – “I’m so scared for your synagogue,” my (non-Jewish) mother said to me as we were driving the other…
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Yes, anti-Semitism is a problem again. No, it is not 1939.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — My father, whose own father changed his unpronounceable last name to Carroll when he came to America, would often tell…
2 Jewish fathers lost their daughters in the Parkland shooting. Now they’re fighting on different sides of the gun debate.
By Josefin Dolsten (JTA) — Jaime Guttenberg and Meadow Pollack shared many similarities. Both were brown-haired and bright-eyed girls, beloved by friends and family. Both…
Campaign asks Jews to attend Shabbat services in response to Pittsburgh shooting
(JTA) — The American Jewish Committee is urging Jews — and non-Jews — to come to synagogue this Shabbat in response to the shooting during services…
Here are the names of the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
By Ben Sales (JTA) — The 11 victims of Saturday’s attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue included two brothers with intellectual disabilities, a married couple and a…