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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Suspect Used Anti-Gay Slur — Fueling Hate Crime Suspicion
The accused killer of Blaze Bernstein reportedly used a common anti-gay slur about the slain college student in an interrogation with police. Samuel Woodward, 20, who was charged with murder at an arraignment Wednesday, used the ‘f-word’ when discussing his meeting with Bernstein on the night he disappeared, the Orange County Register reported. The heartbroken…
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Life Judaism Needs to Be Kinder to Transgender People
Leah came out as transgender long before she thought about converting to Judaism. As a trans woman with a Jewish father, she was befriended by some Orthodox Jews at her college. “They treated me like one of their own and helped me not feel the all-encompassing isolation that my formative years had graced me with.”…
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Fast Forward Gay Men Can Now Donate Blood In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In a policy change, gay men will be allowed to freely donate blood in Israel. Last year, Israel’s Health Ministry announced that gay men would be able to donate blood provided that a year had passed since their last sexual encounter with a man, which was challenged by gay rights groups in…
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News Meet The Lesbian Jewish Lawyer Who’s Despised By Right-Wing Rabbis — But Backed By Trump
Breitbart News called the president’s decision a “nightmare before Christmas. The Conservative Review described her as “Trump’s worst nomination so far,” and the Coalition for Jewish Values argued that the president’s choice to renominate Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was “akin to putting an avid hunter on the board of PETA.” Barack…
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Life Searching for God After An HIV-Positive Diagnosis
Years ago, when my brother married a Jewish woman, I began to look into my family’s own history with Judaism. As a gay man it was just another aspect of my identity I would investigate. This quest took me to my grandmother’s mother, Jenny Grossman. Jenny was the daughter of Jewish parents who emigrated from…
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Fast Forward Turkish Jewish Leader Denies Snubbing Gay Israeli Envoy
(JTA) — Leaders of the Jewish community of Turkey denied complaints by a gay Israeli diplomat serving in Istanbul, who said they ignore him because of his sexual orientation. Ishak Ibrahim Zadeh, the president of the Jewish Community of Turkey, responded in a statement Thursday to the complaints leveled at him by Yossi Levi Sfari,…
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Life Dear Liberals: It’s Not Racist For Me To Tell My Kids To Marry Jewish
In conversations with other parents, we often discuss what we would say if our children told us they were gay or transgender. It’s possible that I get this question more often than other people because I am an out-and-proud conservative living in the liberal enclave of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Having rarely come across a conservative,…
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News How This Neo-Nazi Came Out As Bisexual — And Jewish
In 1983, Kevin Wilshaw visited Dachau with three fellow neo-Nazis. He had traveled to Germany from England, his home country, and visited Hitler’s house and the Nuremberg Stadium in Munich with his German hosts. He asked them to take him to the nearby concentration camp. “They were very reluctant,” he said. They took him, and…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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