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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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Fast Forward WATCH: Megan Rapinoe’s Jewish Girlfriend, B’ball Star Sue Bird, Play HER Game
“Power couple” is the proper descriptor. Meagan Rapinoe: The captain of Reign FC, the world champion women’s soccer team. Sue Bird: Point guard for the Seattle Storm, a three-time world champion and a two-time WNBA champion. She’s got four Olympic gold medals — and her father is a Russian Jew. She was raised with both…
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Fast Forward Republican Lawmaker Invoked Oskar Schindler In Email About Loophole Allowing Anti-Gay Discrimination
A Republican Congressional candidate invoked Oskar Schindler with reference to his own anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative work, according to a report in the Huffington Post. As a North Carolina State Senator, Dan Bishop attempted to establish a loophole in anti-discrimination legislation by declaring that North Carolina residents could be exempt from state laws if they felt that…
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