Israel’s judicial overhaul is facing a new test — but for protesters, the fight is about much more than the courts
LGBTQ+ protesters, women and other minority groups worry their rights are under attack
LGBT Rights
The Latest
-
News -
Fast Forward Survey: Jews are the most accepting group toward trans people
Only 32% of Jews said they strongly agree there are only two genders while 7 out of 10 said they’d be comfortable learning a friend is trans
-
Letters 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
-
Letters 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
-
Opinion As more states target trans Americans, Jewish LGBTQ youth need our help
Jewish institutions must use their platform to loudly advocate for trans youth
-
Opinion I’m a Jewish gay man who resisted apartheid. LGBTQ rights in the U.S. are slipping away from us.
As we celebrate another Pride Month, our nation is backsliding, and our hard-fought gains are in peril.
-
Culture A kids’ guide to gender and sexuality arrives in Yiddish – and hopes to reach Hasidic children
Hasidic children will learn about LGBTQ allyship, gender expression and the diverse world of identity when “You Be You: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality and Family” arrives in Yiddish Jan. 31. The author, Jonathan Branfman, first published the book in English in 2019. His goal was to make a resource that offers stigma-free information…
-
Culture ACT UP changed AIDS activism. Sarah Schulman wants us to learn its lessons
Sarah Schulman had already been covering AIDS as a journalist for five years when she attended a 1987 demonstration organized by the newly-formed AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as ACT UP. ACT UP members picketed outside New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for 72 hours in protest of the sluggish pace…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Zelenskyy joins Canadian Parliament’s ovation to 98-year-old veteran who fought with Nazis
- 2
Forverts in English Hilarious video about the bris of a convert on Rosh Hashanah
- 3
Film & TV Lee Grant is 97-and-a-half and just as fierce as ever
- 4
Music How Jewish is Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah?’
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture Why are all these Jewish leaders groveling to Elon Musk?
-
Forverts in English Jewish refugees from Russia find a home in Armenia
-
Yiddish אַ גרופּע וואָס איז שוין גרייט, מדינת־ישׂראל זאָל ווערן אַ רעליגיעזע אוטאָפּיעThis group is getting ready for Israel to turn into a religious utopia
דער ירושלימער „בית־המקדש־אינסטיטוט‟ גרײט כּהנים צו צו דער עבֿודה וואָס זיי האָפֿן דורכצופֿירן אין אַ דריטן בית־המקדש.
-
Fast Forward Elon Musk: I’m not antisemitic, I’m ‘aspirationally Jewish’
Engage
-
Catch Up on Yiddish Events
-
It's trivia time!
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
