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Life Rival Parties for Gay Jews on Christmas Eve
Jewish Christmas parties, such as the Matzo Ball, are geared toward straight singles. But tonight, there are also warring gay parties in New York City that are competing for the attention of Jewish gay men. There’s the third annual “Christmas Eve Jewbilee,” thrown by Jayson Littman of He’Bro, a gay, Jewish networking site. The party…
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Life Jewish Labor Leader Comes Out, Promotes Gay Marriage Bill
Just in time for New York’s gay pride events, the president of the Jewish Labor Committee, Stuart Appelbaum, announced publicly that he is gay. Appelbaum is thought to be the first president of a major international union to come out. Appelbaum is the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents 100,000…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Gay Pride Brings Religious Zionists to Arab Neighborhoods
Here in Israel, there has been no shortage of secular-religious tensions in recent weeks. As the Bintel Blog discussed here, there have been the turf wars of Ramat Aviv where secular residents fear a Haredi takeover. More recently we’ve had violence over recreation. Haredi residents of Jerusalem, where there is no public transport on Shabbat,…
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Life But My Husband Is My ‘Partner’
As a straight, married woman, I often refer to my husband as my partner. Sari, in your recent post on The Sisterhood, you wrote that you’re discomfited by heterosexuals’ use of the term “partner” to refer to their significant other. I’ve used the term consciously not because I wanted to steal anything semantic from gay…
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Life You’re Not My ‘Partner’
Lately, something confusing has started to happen. I’ll find myself at a wedding or an academic conference or a dinner party and I’ll meet a heterosexual who invariably makes reference to his or her “partner,” a term once employed mainly by gays and lesbians to refer to same-sex significant others. Now, in what seems to…
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Life Israel Grants ‘Maternity Leave’ for Gay Father, Even as Homophobia Abounds
New research indicates that homophobia is rife in Israel. Responding to a survey conducted by the school of psychology at the Center for Academic Studies in Or Yehuda, one-third of people said they are “disgusted” by sex between men. Only 6% of respondents said the same about sex between women. Some 19% of parents said…
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News In Nashville, Hadassah Mulls Marriage Stance
With Tennessee voters set to decide in November whether to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the issue is creating tension between religious and political values for many women in Nashville’s Jewish community. The struggle played out last week as about 75 individuals, from both Hadassah and the community at large, turned out for…
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News Making It Official, Creatively
When Abe Newman and his partner, Craig Pollack, discussed the possibility of marriage, they decided that they wanted their ceremony to be infused with Jewish traditions. Last weekend, even though a friend who is not a rabbi officiated their ceremony in Massachusetts, they stood beneath a chupah and smashed not one but two light bulbs….
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