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Opinion How Jewish Leaders Can Keep the LGBT Debate Honest
A funny thing is happening in Jacksonville, Florida. In the wake of one of the most dishonest civil rights debates in recent memory — Houston’s cash-soaked, lie-filled controversy over whether to expand its human rights ordinance to protect LGBT people from discrimination — the city of Jacksonville has taken a different route. They’re talking honestly…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Lawyer to be First Openly Gay Likudnik in Knesset
A Tel Aviv attorney will be the first openly gay person to serve as a Knesset lawmaker for the right-wing Likud party. Amir Ohana, 39, is expected to be sworn in next week to fill the seat of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, who resigned amid accusations of sexual assault. A major in the Israeli army…
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Fast Forward Second Brooklyn Hasid Cleared in 2013 Attack on Gay Black Man
Charges against a Hasidic man accused with four others of beating an African-American man in New York City have been dismissed. Joseph Fried, 27, is the second member of the group to have charges dropped in the 2013 assault in Brooklyn of college student Taj Patterson. Patterson, 24, lost vision in his right eye as…
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Fast Forward Court Shutters Orthodox Jewish Gay Conversion Therapy Agency
An Orthodox Jewish nonprofit that purports to help gay men become heterosexual has been ordered to close. Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, must cease operations within 30 days, and refrain from therapy, counseling or treatment until that time, the New Jersey Superior Court ordered Friday. The group must liquidate its assets and…
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Fast Forward Top Court To Decide on Cremation of Transgender Activist
The Supreme Court of Israel will hear the appeal brought by the haredi Orthodox family of a transgender activist over the activist’s cremation. The hearing in the case of May Peleg, 31, is scheduled for Tuesday, according to the Campaign for May Peleg’s Memory. On Sunday, Peleg’s haredi Orthodox mother asked the Supreme Court to…
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Fast Forward Mother of Transgender Activist Who Killed Self Challenges Cremation Plan
The ultra-Orthodox mother of an Israeli transgender woman who killed herself is battling the woman’s lawyer over plans to cremate the body. May Peleg, 31, an activist in Israel’s LGBT community, filed a will with attorney Yossi Wolfson the day before her suicide stating her desire to be cremated, Haaretz reported Tuesday. The Israeli newspaper…
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Life Accepting Transgender Jews Can’t Just Come From the Top
Both as a transgender Jew and a member of the board of Keshet, a national organization working toward inclusion of LGBT Jews in the Jewish world, I am delighted and heartened by the Union of Reform Judaism’s to making Reform Jewish congregations and institutions safe for and inclusive of transgender Jews. While other movements have…
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Opinion Rubber Band Experiment Taught Me How Wrong Gay Conversion Therapy Is
“And Thou Shalt Love” disturbed me. It’s about Ohad (Uri Lachmi), an Israeli Yeshiva student who struggles with his homosexuality. Released in 2008, the film uses few words and many strong images. A young man immerses himself in the mikveh, the ritual bath; He says psalms, hoping for a cure, while hiding it from his…
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