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News Meet the Jewish woman who helped land a major LGBTQ victory
A Jewish lawyer who said her upbringing played a big role in her public-interest career was on the team that scored a big victory for gay rights on Monday when the Supreme Court ruled that federal laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace also protect gay and transgender employees. “This case, and I feel like a…
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News These California Jews Are Welcoming Refugees — Into Their Homes, For Months
In November 2016, just days after the election, Lili Shidlovski and her partner, Dennis Owen, sat across their kitchen table from a Guatemalan family. The man, who had been in the U.S. for a few years, spoke only a few words of English. His wife and 9-year-old son, who had just been released from a…
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The Schmooze You’re Invited To ‘Butt Mitzvah,’ A Queer Jewish Joy Disco
To life, to health, to great friends, and to butts: l’chaim. Fat-bottomed girls, Miss New Booty, and all the honky tonk badonkadonks of the tri-state area will be joyfully grinding to the nusach of the Thong Song this Saturday in Williamsburg at Butt Mitzvah, a queer Jewish nightclub event. A “cumming of age ceremony” (their…
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The Schmooze The ‘Transparent’ Musical Finale: Terminally Jewish And Endearingly Hard To Watch
If you think the 70-minute musical finale of Amazon Prime’s “Transparent” doesn’t end with a barn-burning group number called “Joyocaust!” take a hit from your nearest source of cannabis and think again. “Transparent,” the first prestige TV show aimed squarely at presidents of Temple social action committees, dropped its final episode on Friday. Show runner…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U Student Councils Penalize Democrat Club For Sponsoring LGBT March
The student councils of Yeshiva University declined to renew its recognition of the school’s Democratic club after it organized a march in support of LGBTQ students, the YU Commentator reported. The denial of the Democratic club comes amid a year of escalating unease for LGBTQ individuals in the YU community. Last week, more than 100…
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Opinion Conversion Therapy Is Awful. But So Is Treating Being Gay As An Incurable Disease.
Is a person’s sexual orientation immutable, predetermined, biological, and unchangeable? Or is it suppressible, environmental, sociological, and fluid? Today’s Orthodox Jews are of two minds on the issue. If you ask Netanyahu’s Education Minister Rafi Peretz, he will tell you that the latter is the case. He will say that Conversion Therapy works, and that…
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Israel News Gap Year Students In Israel Suffer From Mental Health Issues… But Aren’t Getting Help
(Plus61.net.au) South African teen Adam Seef’s tragic death by suicide while on an Israel tour program last month has devastated not only his family and friends, but the Jewish community worldwide, raising questions about the Jewish community’s addressing of mental health in its youth and LGBT+ members. Remembered as popular, funny, and a high achiever,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Education Minister Under Fire For Supporting Gay Conversion Therapy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s new education minister Rafi Peretz said in a television interview that he supports gay conversion therapy and that he has used the practice to help homosexual youth. The comments from Peretz, who was appointed to the position last month, is the second controversial statement he has made in two weeks. Last…
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