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‘A modern prophet:’ How rabbis reacted to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
The justice’s passing just before Rosh Hashanah posed a dilemma for rabbis: Should they address the news? And how?
May Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s memory be ‘for a blessing.’ What, exactly, does that mean?
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s memory can be ‘for a blessing’
ICYMI: Catch up with the Forward’s coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
If you’ve been offline for Rosh Hashanah, you can catch up on the Forward’s coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death here.
High Holiday lessons from Ruth Bader Ginsburg
High Holiday lessons from Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A final word
After 18 conversations, there are insights — but still no answers. And that’s as it should be.
What would Ginsburg do? Move forward with hope.
Like Ginsburg, I want to help this country move forward, with the small, single voice that I have.
I wrote a song about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and she gave it her ‘hechsher’
“She sat close to the stage, one seat from the aisle, and told the cast afterwards she was moved to laughter and tears.”
May her memory be a revolution: we are all notorious now
“Yehi zichra mahapecha” — may her memory be a revolution.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a true ‘Tzadik,’ battled to the end. Now it’s on us.
Jewish tradition calls one who dies at this auspicious time a
tzadik
, or righteous person. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was certainly one of them.
Remembering RBG as a lover of opera and diva of human rights
Her first night at the opera was in 1944 at age 11, when she attended a one-hour children’s version of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda.”
Is God in the unknowable?
Karyn Kedar: Don’t try to control the mystery; find the beauty in it.
Legacy Bintel: I love traditional services, but my wife wants Rosh Hashanah in mixed seating. Where do we pray?
Not unlike 2020, a man in 1975 might have to make do with High Holidays that just don’t quite feel like the real deal.
What’s the deal with all these motherless Disney princesses?
Pocahantas, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White grew up without mothers. What does that tell us about their stories and their creators?
On Rosh Hashanah, Jews mourn the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reached Jews right as many were preparing for the start of our holiest season. Jews made noise anyway.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘represented an ideal of American Jewish liberalism’
Jane Eisner, who interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2018 for the Forward, said the justice “represented an ideal of American Jewish liberalism”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words: highlights from the Forward’s 2018 interview
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words: highlights from the Forward’s 2018 interview
The right way to mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Jewish way to mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jewish and liberal icon, dead at 87
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. Here are some of our favorite Jewish stories from her life.
Highlights from The Forward’s coverage of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jared Kushner got rabbinic pass to work Shabbat due to pandemic. Did he make good use of it?
This is not the first time that Kushner has allegedly received dispensation to work on Shabbat.