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News Meet the LGBTQ couples whose queer-positive weddings measure up to Jewish legal standards
Pride meets the gatekeepers of Jewish law as observant couples reimagine gendered wedding rituals
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Fast Forward Judge: Yeshiva University must recognize LGBTQ club
The ruling requires the university to give the YU Pride Alliance 'all the privileges afforded to all other student groups'
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News LGBTQ youth face terrifying new threats. How should the Jewish community respond?
Anti-LGBTQ legislation is often billed as defending religion. But Judaism has long supported the idea of a spectrum of sexual and gender identities.
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Opinion Stop bullying drag queens who perform in Israel
Harassing drag performers like me does harm to queer Israelis and Palestinians
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News Conservative rabbis approve a new way to call nonbinary people up to Torah
A Rabbinical Assembly committee voted 24-0 to endorse language that does not invoke gender
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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.
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News Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world’
The organization will soon open centers in Chicago, Baltimore, Florida, Teaneck and Monsey.
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News Mistaken for a right-wing media star, she met a cyberbullying mob
The ‘other’ Chaya Raichik had never heard of Libs of TikTok before this week. She wants to be left alone.
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