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  Tennessee’s drag ban affecting Purim is not a distraction from trans advocacy

  In the face of the dangerous and formidable movement against queer lives, all voices are necessary

  By Mordechai Levovitz

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  Bans on drag performers are direct attacks on trans people

  A recent op-ed centered cisgender Jewish gay men who might dress up in drag once a year at Purim

  By Rabbi Becky Silverstein, and Idit Klein, and Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Mar 9, 2023 | < 1 min read
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  I was priced out of spiraling Jerusalem. I got a second lease on life in Haifa

  With rising rents and dimming hopes for peace, what if we strove to be good neighbors instead?

  By Gidon Ben-Zvi Mar 8, 2023 | 4 min read

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