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The Schmooze Tel Aviv Pride Is as Fierce as Ever
Tel Aviv’s 17th annual Gay Pride Parade took place this Friday. Over 180 thousand participants were expected by the municipality, including around 30,000 tourists who came to participate in the weekend’s Pride events. The temperatures were milder than usual and the city’s streets filled with the nation’s fiercest and proudest, members and allies of the…
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Fast Forward Tens of Thousands Celebrate Gay Pride in Tel Aviv
Tens of thousands of people participated in Tel Aviv’s annual gay pride parade, whose theme this year was the transgender community. Friday’s parade, Tel Aviv’s 17th, featured an appearance by Conchita, the transgender Austrian performer who last year won the Eurovision song festival, Army Radio reported. Some participants in the procession from Meir Garden’s Tel…
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Fast Forward Bar-Ilan University Compares Gay Pride to Pedophilia
Bar-Ilan University in Israel barred an LGBT student group from holding a gay pride event on campus. The Tel Aviv-area university, which is public but has a religious mission and a disproportionately Orthodox student body, objected on religious grounds, according to a spokesman who cited the school’s “religious character” and the halachic prohibition on homosexual…
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Opinion The Best Way To Move the Orthodox World
The Orthodox rabbinate will come around to approving same-sex marriage and equal status for women in Halacha, Jewish law. Provided. Provided that the momentum for such equality in the wider society builds to the point where discrimination is so repugnant that the Orthodox rabbinate feels morally compromised. So if you want Orthodoxy to alter its…
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Fast Forward Trial Begins in Orthodox ‘Gay Conversion’ Therapy Case
The fraud trial for an Orthodox Jewish group that promotes so-called conversion therapy for homosexuals opened in New Jersey. In opening statements Wednesday in state Superior Court in Jersey City, an attorney for four former patients accused Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, of offering “junk science” and lies, The Associated Press reported….
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Fast Forward Day-Old Israeli Twin Baby of Surrogate Mom Dies in Nepal
An Israeli baby born to a surrogate mother in a Nepal field hospital died less than a day after his birth. The baby boy, a twin, died Wednesday night in Kathmandu in a tent in a field hospital set up following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25 that has killed thousands. Following the earthquake,…
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Fast Forward Israel Is No. 7 Best Country for Gays
Israel is the world’s seventh-best country for gay men, according to a poll of 115,000 gay men in 127 countries. The Gay Happiness Index, a collaboration of the gay dating network Planet Romeo and researchers from Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, named Iceland the best country for gay men, followed in order by three…
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Fast Forward Gay Film Fest Bans Flag Ads After Israel Flap
A gay film festival in Vancouver banned “overt expressions of nationalism” after organizers came under fire over an advertisement featuring an Israeli flag. The advertisement in last year’s guidebook for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, placed by the local gay Jewish group Yad b’Yad, featured a gay pride flag alongside an Israeli flag. That led…
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