Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
Both as a transgender Jew and a member of the board of Keshet, a national organization working toward inclusion of LGBT Jews in the Jewish world, I am delighted and heartened by the Union of Reform Judaism’s to making Reform Jewish congregations and institutions safe for and inclusive of transgender Jews. While other movements have…
“And Thou Shalt Love” disturbed me. It’s about Ohad (Uri Lachmi), an Israeli Yeshiva student who struggles with his homosexuality. Released in 2008, the film uses few words and many strong images. A young man immerses himself in the mikveh, the ritual bath; He says psalms, hoping for a cure, while hiding it from his…
It took all of five seconds for the former executive producer of the Late Show with David Letterman to get the hundreds gathered to honor her rolling in the aisles with laughter. “I’m Barbara Gaines and welcome to my Bat Mitzvah,” she said. “I don’t [know] what’s stranger…the fact that I’m wearing my father’s tuxedo…
After all the noise surrounding the Nazi Romance book this summer, I looked closer at my own reading list. I could tell someone what books were awful in their treatment of Judaism and Jewish people, but could I recommend books that were wonderful? I couldn’t. A little ashamed, I set off to read books where…
Beneath the rocky alps and the bright blue sky in Salzburg, Austria this summer, fellows at the Eighteen:22 conference for Jewish LGBTQ leaders sat around at the Schloss Leopolskron, the site where “The Sound of Music” was filmed, addressing each other by their preferred gender pronouns PGP, like he, she, and the non-binary, they and…
When Evan Wolfson wrote his Harvard Law School thesis on gay marriage in 1983, it was considered a fringe idea. Thirty-two years later, Wolfson had his “I told you so” moment when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015. “Love won,” Wolfson wrote in The New York Times that day. As…
The president of the Italian Football Federation said he has “nothing against” Jews and gays, but that he prefers to keep such people at a distance. The comments by Carlo Tavecchio were recorded for an interview with the online magazine Soccer Life and published on the website of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Tavecchio…
1. Blessed art Thou, O L-rd our G-d, King of the universe who hast created the fruit of the vine. In my twenties, when weddings should have been ordinary, I avoided them. Back in the 1990s, marriage, to me, was an institution of derision, exclusive of queers and anachronistic for women. Weddings were an artifice,…
ריקי רויז איז אַ קאָמפּאָזיטאָרין און זינגערין פֿון ייִדישע לידער, אַ קאָמיקערין און אַ בעל־משפּיע אין דער סאָציאַלער מעדיע.
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