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Aid for food banks, outcry over NYPD video, a surprise for a Shoah survivor

By Steve Lipman

Daily Update

Summer of their discontent? A bunk at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. JTA

Summer Camp Hanging in the Balance Amid Crisis

Postponements and cancellations likely as directors await government guidelines.

Eisner Camp in Massachusetts is among 15 Reform movement overnight camps that will not open this summer. (Wikimedia Commons)

Reform Jewish Camps Closing Due to Covid-19

Empty bunks at URJ Kutz Camp in Warwick, N.Y. (themikebot/Flickr Commons)

Coronavirus 2020Summer camps closing, Israel eases restrictions, Rivlin chats with Cuomo

By Steve Lipman

Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Monday, April 6, 2020. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

Opinion

What de Blasio should have said after breaking up a Jewish funeral

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

The mayor had two jobs: protect public safety, and don’t encourage scapegoating. He got one right.

Broadway star Ben Platt, far right, and his brothers Jonah and Henry were among the celebrities who joined a virtual ceremony on Wednesday celebrating Israel’s 72nd Independence Day. The hourlong ceremony, organized by the Jewish Federations of North America, was broadcast on YouTube and Facebook.

Coronavirus 2020De Blasio ‘regrets’ tweet, NYS pays Israeli man for undelivered ventilators, ‘Steve Jobs of medicine’ dies

By Steve Lipman

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Reacting to packed Orthodox funeral, New York City mayor warns ‘the Jewish community’ and faces swift backlash

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Shabbat at Princeton

By Marie-Rose Sheinerman
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Creating a Vision Plan for our Son

By Jodi Holper Singer
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Musical Showcase Highlights Inclusion and Diversity

By Howard Blas
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They Made It! Report Back From Friends of Access Israel’s Kilimanjaro Trek

By James A. Lassner
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Inclusive Thinking will make the world a better place. I promise.

By Beth Steinberg
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Disability and Judaism: Our Fates are Linked

By August Nopoulos and Noah Strauss
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You Won’t Believe the Things People Have Said to This Artist

By Wendy Elliott-Vandivier
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We’re Not Waiting–A Jewish Approach to life with Chronic Illness

By Ophira Calof
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Point of Order: A Disability Awareness Moment in Congress

By Rabbi Michael Levy
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This JDAIM, We must Remove ALL of the Stumbling Blocks

By Ariel Gold
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An Oasis of Caring in the Desert

By Michal Michelle Divon
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What Does it Mean to be a Leader? Inspiration from Jewish Disability Advocacy Day

By Rabbi Deborah Waxman
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It’s Summertime, and the Living is Easy — and Inclusive

By Howard Blas
The New Normal Blog
The Kashrut of Online Accessibility

By Sharon Rosenblatt
The New Normal Blog
How We Can Create Equal Opportunities for Deaf, Hard of Hearing People

By Rabbi Rebecca Dubowe
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Most People Can’t Name a Jewish Leader with a Disability. Here’s How We Can Change That

By Matan Koch
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Jewish Education for Students with Disabilities is Improving, But we Need to Increase the Pace

By Lisa Friedman
The New Normal Blog
‘Belonging’ Means More Than Just Inclusion

By Shelly Christensen
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Life After 21 for a Young Adult with Cognitive Disabilities

By Nina Mogilnik
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This JDAIM, Let’s Commit to Being the Disability Community’s Allies

By Alanna Raffel

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Opinion
Take a Lesson from the British: Save Jewish Newspapers

By Gary Rosenblatt
Editor's Desk
‘The Plot Against America’ Took Us to a Dark Place: the Present

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Israel’s Unity Government is a Big Win for Netanyahu — and Questionable for Gantz

By Michael Koplow
Opinion
Feeling safe at home is the basis of Zionism

By Rhoda Smolow
Editor's Desk
Covid-19 Might Just Kick Us into the Jewish Future

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Opinion
Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Time of Covid-19

By Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Opinion
I Fought AIDS. Here’s What I Learned to Help Us Get Through This Pandemic.

By Linda S. Haase
Opinion
If Moses Had Benny Gantz’s Negotiating Skills

By Michael Koplow
Editor's Desk
How a Celebrity ‘Seder’ Modeled Real Jewish Pluralism

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Opinion
Rabbi Bruce Goldman, 84: Covid-19 Claims a Holy Troublemaker

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Editor's Desk
Grading the President Isn’t ‘Partisanship’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Opinion
Hope and Humor Can See Us Through

By Gary Rosenblatt
Opinion
Covid-19 is an assault on all that Judaism teaches
Opinion
Congress Needs to Give More Help to America’s Charities in This Crisis  

By Nathan J. Diament
‘Civilian Guilt’ Can be a Healthy Response to a Pandemic

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Editor's Desk
Put Yourself on Mute, and Other Tips for a Virtual Seder

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Opinion
Making Room for the ‘Choosing People’

By Daniel Rose
Opinion
Applying Israel’s Zionism Litmus Test Selectively

By Michael Koplow
Editor's Desk
There is Nothing Normal About the ‘New Normal’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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I’m A Veteran Expert In Stopping Epidemics. Here’s Why Jewish Institutions Should Cancel Everything.

By Gary Slutkin

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JOFA Blog
Dating And Distancing in COVID-19
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The Last Responders

By Silvia Kogan
JOFA Blog
Feeling Coronavirus Guilt? Join the Club

By Deborah Kotz
JOFA Blog
Isolated But Not Forgotten

By Rabbi Eryn London
JOFA Blog
The First Ever Seder Was Held In Isolation

By Miriam Lorie
JOFA Blog
Rethinking Mikvah Attendance in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Rabba Dr. Carmella Abraham
JOFA Blog
The Road Not (Yet) Taken: Creating a Coeducational Beit Midrash in France

By Myriam Ackermann-Sommer
JOFA Blog
A Yeshiva of One’s Own

By Devora Steinmetz
JOFA Blog
It’s Your Torah

By Rabbi David Silber
JOFA Blog
Opening a Window: How Tech Can Elevate Women’s Voices on Torah 

By Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld
JOFA Blog
Zakhar U’Nekivah Bara Otam: Learning from Male and Female Teachers, Teaching Male and Female Students Differentially

By Sharon Freundel
JOFA Blog
Strength in Numbers: What’s New in Women’s Torah Leadership in Israel

By Karen Miller Jackson
JOFA Blog
Daf Yomi: A Driver’s Manual

By Yonina Bendheim Jacobson
JOFA Blog
Last Summer at Nishmat: How Torah Learning Refreshed my Soul

By Dvorah Levy
JOFA Blog
You Want Me To Teach?

By Abigail Kogan
JOFA Blog
Movie Review: “The Unorthodox”

By Beverly Gertler
On Leaving Academia and Embracing Torah

By Rachel Anisfeld
JOFA Blog
A Part in the Play: The Female Orthodox Semikhah Student Who Didn’t Want to Become a Rabbi

By Mira Niculescu
JOFA Blog
Book Review: Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition

By Roselyn Bell
JOFA Blog
The Evolution of Women’s Learning—and My Own

By Pam Scheininger