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Fast Forward Knesset Rejects Bill Allowing Gay Couples To Have Children Through Surrogates
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Knesset has rejected a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to have children by surrogacy. The bill to extend surrogacy to single men and same-sex parents was voted down Wednesday during a preliminary reading in a 49-41 vote. In July, the Knesset passed a surrogacy law that expanded eligibility to…
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Opinion The Anti-Trans Nuremberg Laws Are Upon Us
When I came out in 1990 as a fifteen-year-old queer (my gender-nonconforming nature required no announcement) and promptly started being public about it, my father sat me down for a talk. My father, who attended a Hillel weekend in college that was surrounded by jeering anti-Semites from which he had to be snuck out a…
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The Schmooze This Deaf Jewish-Asian Transgender Model Just Made History
Chella Man is the first deaf Jewish-Asian model to sign with IMG — one of the most prominent modeling agencies in the world. The agency, which is known for an inclusive work environment, boasts a rolodex of models including Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, Ashley Graham and other industry giants. “There is an extreme lack of…
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Community Celebrating 20 Years Of Family Camp — Just For LGBTQIA+ Jews
20 years ago, Deborah Newbrun was the only openly lesbian director of a Jewish residential camp in the country, and wherever her family engaged in the Jewish community — from preschool to synagogue — she felt like an outsider. “I needed a place as a young lesbian mother where my family could be in the…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump Smiles In Selfie with Pastor Who Calls LGBT People ‘Demonic’
What has blonde hair, walks on two feet, and says one thing but does another completely different thing? The same woman who waxed poetic about wanting companies to hire Americans while her clothing brand was made overseas by women and children who make the lowest of minimum wages,that’s who. In another hypocritical pursuit, Ivanka Trump…
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Community Can A Gay Man Sexually Harass A Woman?
I came out as gay almost twenty years ago, and as a greying man now in my late 60s, I never dreamed that I could be threatening to women. Women who know me know that I am not interested in them as objects of desire. I am happily and monogamously married to my husband, and…
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Life Hasidic Comedian Shows LGBTQ Support At Jerusalem Pride March
On Thursday, August 2, Hasidic comedian Yisrael Campbell left his home in Jerusalem and headed to the Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance. He’s been going since 2016, the year after ultra-Orthodox Jew Yishai Schlissel stabbed and murdered 16-year-old Shira Banki, and wounded six others at the parade. Campbell made his way to the memorial…
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Life During The AIDS Crisis, This Gay Jewish Cookbook Kept A Community Together
There’s a cookbook titled “Out of Our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco Gay Jewish Cooking.” It’s out of print. There are a few, remaining used copies floating around Amazon and eBay, but that’s it. The cover is colorful, a rainbow ending in piles of produce. This cookbook is the stuff of queer, hedonistic kitchen fantasy, chock…
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