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The Schmooze Do Gay Guys Care About John Oliver? Billy Eichner Investigates
With the often harrowing reality of the world around us, now more than ever it’s important to take the time to laugh — even if it means laughing at oneself. This was the lesson learned by “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver during the most recent segment of “Billy on the Street,” during which Billy…
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Fast Forward Gay British Couple Attacked Targeted by Anti-Semitic Thugs
(JTA) — A young gay couple from Britain was assaulted while celebrating Christmas by thugs who picked on them also because one of them was Jewish, a Yorkshire news website reported. The assault occurred on Dec. 25 outside a pub in the municipality of Thornaby, in North Yorkshire, England, according to an article published last week by…
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Community What the Holocaust and Coming Out Taught Me About Hard Choices in 2016
My mother, Wilhelmina Herberdina Cornelia Visser Faas, will be turning 98 next April. Although her body is frail, her mind is agile and she continues to follow and weigh in on current affairs. Now that she has lost much of her sight and hearing she is more dependent on individual discussions to keep abreast of…
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Fast Forward Lionel Blue, First Openly Gay British Rabbi, DIes at 86
— Rabbi Lionel Blue, the first openly gay British rabbi and a popular on-air personality, has died. Blue, a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4’s “Thought for the Day” show for 30 years, died Monday at 86. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for many years. His funeral was held Tuesday. He formerly served as European director…
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Culture This Jewish Lesbian Activist Helped Take Down a Carjacking Ring — and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The night Miriam Ben-Shalom helped take down a Milwaukee carjacking ring started, incongruously, at the theater. On October 22, Ben-Shalom, a lesbian activist well-known for her groundbreaking challenges to the military’s ban on gay and lesbian servicepeople, was on a date with her life partner when the duo’s car was threatened at Milwaukee’s Metro Hotel….
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Community The Looming Revolution in Jewish American Politics
The election of Donald Trump is an earthquake shaking the foundations of American politics. Established leaders and advocates for change in both the Republican and Democratic parties will be dealing with the aftershocks for years to come. So too this election foreshadows seismic change in Jewish America. For decades, the established leadership of the Jewish…
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Life With a GOP Government and Mike Pence as VP, Don’t Treat Social Issues as a Side Note
It can seem almost quaint to think that once, when liberals feared the GOP, we concerned ourselves with things like reproductive rights, as versus OMG IMPENDING FASCISM. But the thing with Trump is, we don’t really know whether he’ll be as fascist as we fear (although I’m team I think he’ll be quite fascist). We…
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Opinion On Election Eve, I Called Out Anti-Semitism Among Trump Supporters. Their Response? More Anti-Semitism.
During the days leading up to the election, and certainly during the day itself, there was a lot to be nervous about as a Jewish journalist. Trump’s supporters, especially those on the so-called “alt-right”, have taken it upon themselves to ramp up hateful, odious anti-semitism against Jewish journalists to a degree unprecedented in recent memory….
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