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Life Queer? Trans? Female? Here’s How To Find Tefillin
There are literally hundreds of different ways of choosing, wrapping, and storing a set of tefillin [phylacteries]. Eichler’s Judaica superstore offers more than 2,000 tefillin-related items for purchase online alone, from a Swarovski crystal adorned bag, to a military camouflage case, and a strangely economical set of blinged-out gold plastic storage boxes—all to compliment the…
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Opinion 6 Happy, Hopeful Jewish News Stories From An Otherwise Crummy Week
Listen, we can admit it — it was not the greatest week for Jewish news. The double-whammy of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming indictment charges and Michael Cohen’s congressional hearing, more troubling comments by Ilhan Omar, and the unsettling news about Jared Kushner’s security clearance the news this week by turns depressing and scary, not…
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The Schmooze All Of The Jewish Wins And Woes Of The 2019 Oscars
For the first time in years, a key component of the Academy Awards ceremony was missing on Sunday night — a person without whom, it was widely believed, the night could hardly function. I am referring, of course, to Natalie Portman, whose life-of-a-pop-star movie “Vox Lux” was unjustly snubbed by Academy voters (she sang, people!)…
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News Anti-Israel Disruption Sparks Controversy At LGBTQ Conference
(JTA) — Anti-Israel protesters took the stage unannounced at Creating Change, an LGBTQ conference that was the site of a raucous anti-Israel protest in 2016. At the opening of this year’s conference, organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force, a group of activists holding Palestinian flags took the stage and led a 13-minute protest for…
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The Schmooze Jewish Actor Hospitalized After Anti-Gay, Racist Attack: ‘This Is MAGA Country’
Actor Jussie Smollett is in the hospital after being brutally attacked in Chicago in what police are treating as a likely hate crime. The 35-year-old star of the hit show “Empire” was reportedly approached by two people who yelled racist and homophobic slurs, then physically beat him and poured an “unknown chemical substance” onto him,…
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The Schmooze Meet The Bisexual Jewish Rock Star On Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’
Sex education is sweeping the nation. No, not the system of keeping children and teens apprised of their bodies’ reproductive and pleasure systems, but something even better: a television show! “Sex Education,” a British TV series that debuted on Netflix over the weekend, has young people buzzing like — well — whatever buzzes — we…
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Fast Forward She’s Bisexual And Jewish — And The 101st Rose Bowl Queen!
(JTA) — Louise Deser Siskel, a high school senior who will preside over the New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade, says she is the first Jewish Rose queen in the parade’s 101-year history. Siskel, 18, also told the local media that she is the first LGBTQ queen and the first queen that wears glasses, though…
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Life Jews, Talking To Our Families About Violence Against Transgender People Is Our Obligation
On Sunday night I was in the balcony of a packed sanctuary of a Brooklyn synagogue that was hosting a literary event. A loud, cracking sound split the air behind me. Another time, a disruption like that would have triggered automatic head-swiveling, that jerk of human curiosity that forces you to turn with interest towards…
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