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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

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Red Tent Fund founder Allison Tombros Korman. (Courtesy of the Red Tent Fund)
August 12, 2024, 2:04 am
Shunned for her stance on Israel, a Jewish US abortion activist starts her own fund
Allison Tombros Korman launches the Red Tent Fund in response to what she calls a movement steeped in antisemitism amid a one-sided conversation about Gaza that isolates many Jews
By Cathryn J. Prince
People celebrate the defeat of Issue 1 during a watch party Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
August 9, 2023, 6:50 am
Ohio voters reject GOP-backed proposal that aimed to further limit abortion rights
Measure would have made it harder to change state’s constitution, setting up fall campaign that will become latest referendum on issue since Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON
A student debt relief activists adjusts their sign after the US Supreme Court stuck down President Biden's student debt relief program on June 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images via AFP)
July 1, 2023, 2:53 am
US Supreme Court steers society sharply to the right
Conservative-majority court shows determination to scrap long-established progressive policies, with rulings against affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights
By Paul Handley
Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Policy Conference in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
June 24, 2023, 8:04 pm
Mike Pence calls for federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks
On first anniversary of Dobbs decision, Republican candidates seek to differentiate themselves from Trump
By Will Weissert and Michelle L. Price
File: US President Donald Trump at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, DC, June 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
June 23, 2023, 3:20 pm
2024 GOP hopefuls urged to push anti-abortion message at evangelical confab
Former US president Trump, a favorite among evangelicals for abortion record and US embassy move to Jerusalem, to give keynote address at annual event
By Will Weissert and Michelle L. Price
Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, September 22, 2010. A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
April 22, 2023, 2:39 am
US Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill for now
Justices reject lower-court restrictions on mifepristone while a lawsuit on the matter continues
By Mark Sherman
Doris Marlin, left, of Silver Spring, Md., and fellow activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 14, 2023. The Supreme Court said Friday it was temporarily keeping in place federal rules for use of an abortion drug, while it takes time to more fully consider the issues raised in a court challenge. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
April 15, 2023, 4:47 am
US Supreme Court temporarily blocks restrictions on abortion pill
Court hits pause on fast-moving case to decide on future access to FDA-approved medication, mifepristone, available for more than 20 years
By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko
Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, September 22, 2010. A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
April 13, 2023, 12:08 pm
US court preserves access to abortion drug for now, but tightens rules
Federal appeals court rules mifepristone pills only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail; case will likely head to Supreme Court
By Paul J. Weber and Jessica Gresko
US President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023, en route to Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
April 12, 2023, 6:48 am
Biden calls judge’s abortion drug block ‘out of bounds’
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, overturned FDA’s two-decade-old approval of mifepristone
By AFP
In this file photo illustration taken on May 8, 2020, a woman looks at website with the Mifepristone Abortion Pill on her smart phone in Arlington, Virginia (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)
April 12, 2023, 6:22 am
Radio silence from Republicans as US abortion laws tighten
Some conservatives are beginning to ring the alarm over the issue, arguing it is increasingly costing the party votes
By Camille CAMDESSUS
File: Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. A federal judge in Texas on Friday, April 7, 2023, ordered a hold on the US approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, throwing into question access to the nation’s most common method of abortion in a ruling that waved aside decades of scientific approval. Federal lawyers representing the FDA are expected to swiftly appeal the ruling. (AP/Allen G. Breed)
April 8, 2023, 5:32 am
Access to abortion pill in US in limbo after competing rulings
2 separate decisions issued in quick succession by federal judges in Texas, Washington throw into question ability to obtain common abortion medication, available for over 20 years
By Paul J. Weber, MATTHEW PERRONE and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
File: Then-Florida commissioner of agriculture and consumer services Nikki Fried speaks during an interview at the Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami, on April 21, 2022. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)
April 5, 2023, 11:57 am
Nikki Fried, Jewish head of Florida Democrats, arrested at abortion rights rally
10 others held at demonstration against 6-week abortion ban proposal, which passed state Senate, awaits approval by House and Governor DeSantis
By Ben Sales
Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, speaks at an abortion rights rally in front of the US Supreme Court in December 2021. (Courtesy of Danya Ruttenberg)
February 18, 2023, 3:14 am
US Jewish communities gather in person and online for ‘reproductive rights Shabbat’
More than 1,500 synagogues and Jewish communities nationwide are observing the third annual event, with the aim of getting people to engage with the issue more closely
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Sheila Katz, CEO of National Council of Jewish Women, speaking at an interfaith rally in front of the Supreme Court on January 18, 2023. (Courtesy of NCJW)
January 22, 2023, 4:41 pm
50 years after Roe v. Wade, fight for choice turns into battle for religious freedom
After a 2022 decision to overturn the longstanding right to abortion, religious women’s groups unite in protesting laws reflecting a Christian-centric view on when life begins
By Cathryn J. Prince
From left to right: Rev. Traci Blackmon, Maharat Rori Picker Neiss and Americans United for Separation of Church & State CEO Rachel Laser march to the Civil Courts building in St. Louis. (Courtesy of Americans United for Separation of Church & State via JTA)
January 21, 2023, 6:28 am
5 rabbis sue state of Missouri over abortion bans, citing religious freedom grounds
Religious leaders from multiple Jewish denominations are among more than a dozen faith figures in the state challenging the state’s ban on abortion
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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