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RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior

RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior

Her life exemplified the unique complexities of Jewish identity

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Sep 25, 2020
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg accepting supreme court nomination from President Bill Clinton, June 1993

The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last weekend, provoked outrage among a number of Jews.

In the piece, Godfrey Hodgson wrote: “Ruth was brought up in a Conservative Jewish tra…

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