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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Attacker Stabs 6 at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and injured six participants of an annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police and witnesses said. Police reportedly said a suspect is the same man who was convicted of a similar attack in 2005 and was recently freed from prison, the Times of Israel reported. It was the…
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Opinion We’ve Heard Enough Rabbis on Gay Marriage. Now, We Need a Rebbe.
The Orthodox conversation over the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision reminds me why I am Modern Chassidish and not Modern Orthodox. There are many differences between these two streams, but the defining distinction is this: their views differ greatly over the role of Halacha (Jewish law) in religious life. The Modern Orthodox Jew experiences the…
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Opinion Let’s Unite To Make Marriage Stronger for All — Gay and Straight
In the stirring words of his groundbreaking decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy not only affirmed the value of marriage between those of the same sex. He also wrote into the law journals and history books a rigorous, passionate argument for marriage, period. “No union is more profound than marriage,…
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Life In Israel, Love is Not Love
In his characteristically crisp manner, President Barak Obama summed up the recent US Supreme Court decision acknowledging the right of gays to marry: . The Constitution is about individual liberty. And change is possible. Good for you, citizens and residents of the United States of America. An important job, well done. And while this Constitutional…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Fret Over Impact of Gay Marriage Ruling
The name that keeps coming up when Orthodox Jewish groups consider the consequences of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision extending same-sex marriage rights to all states has little to do with Jews or gays. Bob Jones University, the private Protestant college in South Carolina, lost its tax-exempt status in 1983 when the Supreme Court…
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Life L’Chaim to Marriage Equality, but Our Work Isn’t Finished
(JTA) — Four years ago, I stood under a chuppah with the woman I was about to marry overlooking a valley in Massachusetts. I have an emotional memory of sweetness and joy from my wedding day, but I can’t recall many specific moments. What I do remember vividly is the end of our ceremony, when…
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Opinion Worst Way To Protest Gay Pride? It’s Called Jewish Ethnic Drag.
What’s the best way for Orthodox Jews to protest a bunch of gay drag queens? By transforming a bunch of Mexican laborers into ethnic drag queens — for a fee. That, apparently, is the belief of the Jewish Political Action Committee, supposedly a fringe group (see update below) of Brooklyn-based Hasids whose unusual protest strategy…
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox Rabbi and I Celebrate Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it is unconstitutional for a state to ban same-sex marriage. The issue still divides America, though the latest Pew numbers say 54% of Americans are in favor of gay marriage and only 36% oppose. In the Orthodox Jewish community, the matter is far less…
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