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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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The Schmooze Meet Megan Rapinoe’s Jewish Girlfriend, WNBA-Star Sue Bird
Filed under, Things We Wish Our Grandparents Had Lived To See: A lesbian Jewish basketball star passionately kissing the woman who led the U.S. Women’s Soccer team to yet another World Cup victory. Related story: Megan Rapinoe’s Brother Was Once In A White Supremacist Gang. He’s Inked Over His Swastika Tattoos. Your neighbor, your rabbi,…
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Fast Forward Jewish LGBT People Celebrate At WorldPride, Including With Jewish Pride Flag
A large delegation from the organization Jewish Queer Youth joined with millions of people marching in WorldPride in New York on Sunday, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, considered the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. Several young Jews, some wearing kippot, marched, danced, and waved Pride flags as representatives of the…
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Opinion Racial Justice and LGBTQ Equality Are The Same Fight. It’s A Jewish Fight.
As Jewish leaders working for LGBTQ equality and racial justice in Jewish life, our emotions run deep this month: June marks two historical moments of liberation. Fifty years ago, LGBTQ people resisted a violent police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, sparking the start of the modern LGBT rights movement and signaling…
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Fast Forward Despite DC Controversy, Other Dyke Marches Welcome Jewish Pride Flags
NEW YORK (JTA) — A lesbian advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., drew wide criticism last week for banning Pride flags with Jewish stars from its signature march. Organizers of the DC Dyke March said the rainbow flags featuring a Star of David in the middle too closely resemble the Israeli flag and thus were not…
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The Schmooze A Queer, Butch Woman Rabbi On Television? Meet Jen Kober, Of ‘Dead To Me.’
A non-exhaustive history of rabbis on television shows: The rabbi on “Seinfeld”? A man. The rabbi on “The West Wing”? A man. The rabbi on “Seventh Heaven”? A man. The rabbi on “Gossip Girl”? A man. The rabbi on “Grey’s Anatomy”? A man. The rabbi on “The Mindy Project”? A man. The rabbi on “Curb…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Pride Parade Draws 250,000 Participants
(JTA) — Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai led about 250,000 revelers participating in his city’s annual gay Pride Parade procession, which is the largest in the Middle East. “I promise you we will not relent and continue to fight until we see full equality in the State of Israel,” said Huladi, a reserves fighter pilot…
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