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Life How Being A Transgender Woman Hurts My Job Prospects
Even in Pride Month, it sometimes feels as though one needs to be a superhero to get a job after coming out as a transgender woman. As I was set to come out at work as transgender, I received some bad news. Shortly after coming home from work on that late Friday afternoon in September,…
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Fast Forward Arab Transgender Beauty Queen Says ‘Israel Means Freedom’
WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) — The Israeli Embassy marked LGBT Pride Month with a reception for Jewish and Israeli activists and leaders. About 100 people attended the event, which featured an address by Talleen Abu Hana, an Arab Christian from Nazareth who won the first Miss Trans Israel beauty pageant in 2016. The embassy also paid tribute to…
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Life Some LGBT Jews Support Israel. Their Existence Isn’t ‘Pinkwashing.’
At Bustle, Hannah Simpson writes about her experiences as a Jewish Queer Youth marcher at New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade. Simpson, who is transgender, describes what happened when, as she puts it, “Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) ambushed and blocked our members under the guise of civil disobedience and protest.” Simpson explains that when JVP…
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Community The Dangerous Myth of Israeli ‘Pinkwashing’ Must End
I want to speak about courage and honesty, two concepts missing from much of the discussion about the events at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City. At the parade, a group of activists from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chose to create disruption by specifically targeting the LGBTQ contingent in the parade, a…
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Community On LBGTQ Rights, Linda Sarsour is No Ally
I was riding my bike one summer evening alongside the beautiful, crashing waves and the golden beaches of Tel Aviv. The last rays of sun painted the sky in rainbow colors which echoed the countless multi-colored flags trimming both sides of the streets of the Israeli city that never sleeps. Carefree and anxiously anticipating the…
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Fast Forward Meet Jared Polis, Gay Millionaire Cannabis Advocate Running For Colorado Governor
Five-term Democratic Rep. Jared Polis, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, announced on Sunday that he is running for Governor of Colorado in 2018. Here’s what you need to know about one of Congress’ most notable characters: He’s an incredibly successful businessman: Polis, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, founded an internet…
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Community Sorry, Rabbis: Gay Men Can’t Be Happy With Women — I Married One And I Know
As some in the Sephardi world stand in an uproar as one rabbi opens a dialog around homosexuality, I am grief stricken. Rabbi Joseph Dweck, Chief Rabbi of the Spanish Portuguese community in London, recently gave a class discussing homosexuality in the context of Jewish texts. His words in no way permitted that which is…
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Fast Forward Thousands Revel At Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade
Tens of thousands of rainbow flag-toting revelers attended the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parade in Tel Aviv on Friday, billed as the largest of its kind in the deeply conservative Middle East. The annual parade featured floats with blaring sound systems and gyrating dancers. Revelers could be seen dancing on the balconies of surrounding…
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