Does the Orthodox ChatGPT think women can be rabbis?

Our Louis Keene found out what AI for the yeshiva world reveals about Orthodox Judaism.

https://forward.com/news/545955/frumchat-orthodox-jewish-chatbox-ai/

In our weekend Shabbat magazine:

- A dispatch from the West Bank;
- @bintelbrief answers how to properly handle Nazi memorabilia;
- An essay from Etgar Keret;

And much more!

Get your copy ➡️ https://assets.forward.com/Shabbat+PDF+5.5.23.pdf

Me, before Passover when I can't get the fire started:
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RT @worrystonee
someone very mysteriously dumped 3-400 pounds of pasta in the woods in old bridge, nj …… i need to know everything
https://twitter.com/worrystonee/status/1653513196915884034

Like many queer Orthodox Jews, 25-year-old Herschel Siegel struggled with teachings that paint LGBTQ identity as an ‘abomination,’ Mordechai Levovitz writes in a new opinion for the Forward.

"Herschel was a gay man in a world that made no place for queer people. He was loved and will be missed," Levovitz writes.

"There are thousands of Jewish queer youth in the Orthodox community. We must do better. Do not look away."

https://forward.com/opinion/545834/queer-orthodox-jewish-herschel-siegel/

A new survey from the @TrevorProject found that 41% of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year.

Data from Jewish Queer Youth's intake assessment show that number closer to 70% among youth growing up in Orthodox families.

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2023/assets/static/05_TREVOR05_2023survey.pdf

In speaking with its residents, Arno Rosenfeld captured a glimpse of what the people of Hawara believe the future looks like in a town that is now synonymous with violence and tragedy.

Read the full story here:

https://forward.com/news/545441/hawara-pogrom-future-west-bank-settlers/

In speaking with its residents, Rosenfeld captured a glimpse of what the people of Hawara believe the future looks like in a town that is now synonymous with violence and tragedy.

Read the full story here: https://forward.com/news/545441/huwara-pogrom-future-west-bank-settlers/

The Forward's @ArnoRosenfeld visited Hawara on a trip arranged by @btselem, an Israeli human rights organization, who also translated most interviews from Arabic to English.

“I don’t think they will come and throw us out,” said Abu Assad said, who runs the Howwara Country resort complex.

“But they’re encouraging the settlers to attack, and do what they want, so that we leave on our own.”

They also expect a road, now under construction by the Israeli government, that will bypass their town and could spell the end for businesses which rely on customers rolling past the commercial strip.

Residents of the Palestinian village say they hope to return to more peaceful times, although many anticipate a bleaker future — and not only because they expect more violence.

At Ziyad Abdullah’s auto parts store, customers can purchase a truck battery for $30 that would cost $100 in Jerusalem.

But Abdullah, who opened the shop 30 years ago, said his business tanked after the February riot in Hawara, where hundreds of Israelis burned parts of town. 🧵

Today is 53 years since the #KentState shootings.

In 2020, Benjamin Ivry asked: what should the Jewish response be today to what was, in some ways, a Jewish tragedy?

"At times of political malaise and enervation, what is the Jewish thing to do?" Ivry continued.

Read more here: https://forward.com/culture/440835/50-years-later-how-should-we-remember-the-kent-state-massacre/

Three of the four students fatally shot on May 4, 1970, by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio were Jews: Allison Krause, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and Jeffrey Miller.

A statistical oddity out of 750 Jewish students on a campus of 15,000.

Rep. Paul Gosar will speak at CPAC in Hungary, while sharing the stage with an authoritarian leader who has invoked antisemitic tropes and members of a European political party that was founded by former Nazi officers.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/545740/nazism-paul-gosar-orban-antisemitism-hungary-conference-cpac/

A Jewish dermatologist who gave a guest lecture to Arkansas medical students found himself stiffed on his speaking fee because he refused to sign a pledge opposing the BDS movement.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/545695/jewish-doctor-arkansas-boycott-israel/

The initiative involves various departments and organizations to ensure knowledge about the Holocaust remains abundant and factual for tackling present challenges in both countries and around the world.

The United States and Germany made progress in their Dialogue on Holocaust Issues, aimed at countering denial and distortion of historical facts, according to a statement from the State Department.

https://www.state.gov/joint-statement-on-the-dialogue-on-holocaust-issues/