Jury convicts Blaze Bernstein’s killer of premeditated murder and a hate crime
Samuel Woodward, Bernstein's former classmate, will face life in prison without the possibility of parole
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News ‘His last name was Bernstein’: Exchange over yarmulke brings antisemitism into focus in murder trial
Was Blaze Bernstein's death an anti-gay murder, an antisemitic murder, or both?
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Opinion For Lauren Boebert and her appalling ‘Beetlejuice’ antics, the season of repentance is at hand
The Colorado representative's words and actions have gone well beyond mere hypocrisy
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Theater Playing a 1960s beatnik, Oscar Isaac finds out that being Jewish doesn’t make you a social justice authority
Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ an overlooked play about idealism and apathy, gets a New York revival
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Fast Forward Republican Lawmaker Invoked Oskar Schindler In Email About Loophole Allowing Anti-Gay Discrimination
A Republican Congressional candidate invoked Oskar Schindler with reference to his own anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative work, according to a report in the Huffington Post. As a North Carolina State Senator, Dan Bishop attempted to establish a loophole in anti-discrimination legislation by declaring that North Carolina residents could be exempt from state laws if they felt that…
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Opinion The Anti-Trans Nuremberg Laws Are Upon Us
When I came out in 1990 as a fifteen-year-old queer (my gender-nonconforming nature required no announcement) and promptly started being public about it, my father sat me down for a talk. My father, who attended a Hillel weekend in college that was surrounded by jeering anti-Semites from which he had to be snuck out a…
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Fast Forward GOP Distances Itself From 9/11 Truther Candidate Ron Cohen
The California Republican Party and two county Republican parties are distancing themselves from congressional candidate and 9/11 truther Ron Cohen, Media Matters reported. Cohen, running in California’s 17th district, claims that “Bush staged 9/11” said the collapse of 7 World Trade Center was a “pre-planned demolition.” He backed up his views using a video by…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Smiled Next To Anti-LGBTQ Evangelical Leaders
Ivanka Trump enjoyed a White House dinner with about a hundred evangelical Christian leaders, many of whom believe same-sex marriage is sinful, The Daily Beast reported. Jarod & Ivanka @ tonite’s White House dinner. pic.twitter.com/PEhm4vOSsF — Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018 Trump tweeted last June that she was “proud to support my LGBTQ friends…
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