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Yom HaShoah

On Yom HaShoah, Hear the Message of the Saved Remnant

Aron Hirt-Manheimer
 April 7, 2021
My mother’s answer to hate is love. When I asked her what she wishes for herself and for the world, she said, “For myself good health, so I can be good to others. For the world, peace not war. No bad person wins in the end. What did Hitler achieve?”
Teenagers walking down railroad tracks while visiting a concentration camp
Arts and Culture

Ghetto: A Poem

Samantha (Sami) Silk
 April 5, 2021
the path that we now follow / is the Exodus our ancestors never chose / flooding with pain they died not to swallow / the past spills into the river and flows
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Women of Reform Judaism

Don't Call Me a Female Rabbi

Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch
 April 5, 2021
When we celebrate the ascension of women to positions of authority and prominence, it is easy to tokenize women in power by qualifying their professional identity. My congregants are proud to call me their rabbi, not their woman rabbi.
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Social Justice

We Are Done Waiting 

Noa Greene
 March 25, 2021
I am done with people in power ending their action at “thoughts and prayers.” The thoughts and prayers that were sent a day ago, year ago, and decades ago have not and will not save human life, nor protect us.
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Arts and Culture

What Do Superheroes and Passover Have in Common?

Chris Harrison
 March 25, 2021
The author of "The (unofficial) Hogwarts Haggadah" and "The (unofficial) Muggle Megillah" has delivered another work of art combining fanservice and prescient Jewish learning in his newly released "The Superhero Haggadah: A Story of Signs and Marvels."