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News His synagogue barred him because he’s gay. Now, he protests outside each Shabbat.
'I just want a shul where everyone who is Jewish is welcome,' says Brian Mandel, a social worker.
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News Former rabbinical students complain to Conservative movement about sexism at seminary
Letter to Rabbinical Assembly’s ethics committee describes culture of harassment alienating women and queer students
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Opinion Is Yeshiva University entitled to state funds? Religion has little to do with it
YU’s identification as a religious institution would not render it ineligible for the state funds in question, raising serious questions about why this whole kerfuffle got started in the first place.
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Fast Forward Queer yeshiva to publish first-ever collection of Jewish legal opinions written by and for trans Jews
“Halacha has to be informed by the real lived experiences of the people about whom it is legislating,” said Laynie Soloman, who teaches at and helps lead Svara, a Chicago yeshiva that serves queer Jews
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Opinion ‘This is not about Hitler’ — Micaela Diamond on the Broadway revival of ‘Parade’
The Jewish musical theater star talks playing the role she's always dreamed of
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News For Zionist LGBTQ group, Israel’s right-wing government has created an urgent crisis
A Wider Bridge has doubled its donations to Israeli LGBTQ groups this year, in the face of an Israeli government that includes anti-LGBTQ officials
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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
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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
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