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Community Over 100 Rabbis Call On Hillel International To Reinstate Booted LGBTQ Group
To: Eric Fingerhut, President and CEO of Hillel International Dear Mr. Fingerhut, We write to you as LGBTQ rabbis, rabbinical students and allies from a range of Jewish denominations living across the United States. We are teachers, scholars, activists, and leaders of communities and congregations; we have dedicated our professional lives to serving the Jewish…
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Community Marching For Pride In New York — And Fighting For Activists Around The World
Two weeks ago, I was in Haiti visiting AJWS’s grantee partner Kouraj, which is the Creole word for “courage.” What an apt name for an organization led by courageous activists who are fighting for a very simple human right that still eludes people in more than 70 countries around the world. That right is the…
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News Bitter Rift Over Israel Hits LGBTQ Jews Hard After Controversial Protest At Celebrate Israel Parade
In just a few seconds, five people brought the Celebrate Israel parade to a standstill. A block shy of the June 4 parade’s dispersal point on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, five undercover protesters broke ranks with the LGBTQ contingent and formed a picket line in front of it. One of the protesters unplugged the pedicab-mounted…
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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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