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Hallel Silverman

May 6, 2025, 6:35 PM

Abortion, #FreePalestine & Hannah Einbinder

Hannah Einbinder arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Slogans claiming solidarity with oppressed women by pushing a false narrative are worse than just annoying

Apr 1, 2025, 12:12 AM

Hypocrites and Breeders

The United Nations says Israel is stopping the women of Gaza from reproducing. The three-person Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (plus East Jerusalem, and Israel) has accused Israel of targeting anything to do with maternity. Good...

Nancy K. Kaufman

Nov 4, 2024, 12:06 AM

My Jewish values on reproductive care mean I’m voting for Kamala Harris

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Planned Parenthood, March. 14, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Adam Bettcher, File)

We have witnessed the catastrophic fallout of Donald Trump’s callous disregard for a woman’s right to control her own body

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Oct 12, 2024, 11:25 PM

Why Trump is still winning

The Democrats better figure out how to win over more blue-collar workers The pro and con of these elections. These are big general changes you must make to win, without a doubt. 1. Most working-class voters will vote anti-establishment. Explain 'Biden...

Melanie Roth Gorelick

Sep 25, 2024, 1:48 PM

Seizing the Moment to Secure Women’s Rights

ERA March, Washington DC, 1978. (Photo by Joan Roth)

When I was growing up in New York, advocacy for the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a critical focus of the women’s movement, and was personal in my family — and to my own growth and trajectory as a...

Clifford Rieders

Sep 25, 2024, 1:41 PM

When Is a Political Ad Misleading?

The airways and TV are blanketed with claims that Roe v. Wade eliminated the right to abortion and is the fault of Donald Trump. In Roe v. Wade the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United...

Aug 7, 2024, 9:19 PM

Am I still considered to be American, or am I only seen as a Jew?

I always thought of myself as an American, who happens to be Jewish. I never thought about making one descriptor more important then the other. Both of my grandmothers were born in Chicago, along with my parents. I never thought...

Aug 3, 2024, 4:06 PM

Abortion: Whose body is it?

Two oldsters squared off and squabbled over women's bodies. A septuagenarian and an octogenarian quarreled about control but it wouldn't have made a difference if 20 or 30-year-olds were at it. They were men, making the scene still more...

Jul 21, 2024, 6:47 PM

Abortion: A Pragmatic Perspective

For the purposes of this article, we will adopt the definition of abortion from YaleMedicine.org: “Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the uterus. It can occur spontaneously, known as a miscarriage, or...

Jun 14, 2024, 12:41 AM

Why I stand with Hadassah for reproductive rights

Photo courtesy of Hadassah.

I have had an abortion. Was the decision easy? Yes. Was it emotionally painful? You bet it was. The “why” isn’t important (although I will disclose that later). The fact of the matter is my husband and I had...

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