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Fast Forward Prominent British LGBTQ activist arrested for carrying ‘globalize the intifada’ sign in London
Protesters calling for “intifada” meanwhile marched in Philadelphia on Sunday
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Holy Ground A millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed. Her maverick ideas are becoming a model.
An urban synagogue in South Philadelphia is growing fast by defying expectations — and has become a closely watched experiment in American Jewish life
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Film & TV At Sundance, the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a bar mitzvah boy
Israeli director Moshe Rosenthal’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is a memory piece that may jog your memory of a different film
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Film & TV How the Israeli police’s first trans volunteer fought bigotry on the force
In the documentary 'The First Lady,' Efrat Tilma shows that resilience is key to fighting prejudice
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Culture Can this LGBTQ+ Jewish organization navigate these turbulent times?
Keshet is experiencing a CEO transition and external pressures. It hopes its latest project, Shivyon, eases them
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Opinion ‘Conversion therapy is having a moment’ — what will that mean for LGBTQ+ Jews?
The Supreme Court is poised to greenlight a practice that has harmed many young, queer religious people
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News Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, New York Orthodox rabbinical school, ordains an out gay rabbi
The men's seminary, known as a center of Orthodox Jewish innovation, plotted a new course after controversial 2019 decision
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Culture Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new
Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting discrimination and harassment by offering loans to those who need to flee
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Culture Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere takes a detour into antisemitism
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Fast Forward Illinois primary pits Jewish candidate with deep Israel ties against AIPAC spending
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Opinion Antisemitism is exploding on the right but the Jewish establishment is focused on the left
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Culture A brilliant Jewish storyteller may be gone, but her characters are ‘still talking’
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Yiddish „גלאָזפּערל‟: כּישוף־לידער פֿון קאַטערינאַ קוזנעצאָוואַ‘Glass Beads’: Yiddish magic by Katerina Kuznetsova
אין איין מיסטיש ליד פֿון קוזנעצאָוואַס נײַ בוך, פּראַוועט אַ שדיכע — די וואַלד־מלכּה — איר חתונה מיטן זומער.
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