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Dallas Jewish Conservatives plan ‘mask-burning’ party to celebrate end of Texas mandate

“I’m not personally anti-mask,” said Benji Gershon, the group’s founder and president.

Clockwise from top left: Gabrielle Kaplan-Meyer, Rabbi Seth Winberg, Rabbi Aaron Brusso, Simone Somekh, Linda S. Haase, Meyer Labin, Sara Nuss-Galles, and Dr. Gary Slutkin (Courtesy)

Ideas

Their writing helped us make sense of a pandemic that was just beginning. Here’s what they’re thinking about as we enter year 2.

Those who wrote essays for JTA in March of 2020, just as the crisis was beginning in earnest, share how their lives and thinking has changed since then.

For Jake Tapper, being the rabbi of TV news comes easy

The CNN journalist explains Jewish topics as a matter of course from one of TV’s most powerful perches, and has a keen ear for anti-Jewish bigotry from the left and right.