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Fast Forward 6 Reasons ‘Pinkwashing’ Israel on Gay Rights Is So Wrong
Pinkwashing just won’t die. No matter how many times the tactic is called out, its proponents just keep on doing it, blithely unaware of how transparently ridiculous it is — or how offensive. So, let’s look closely at one recent example: last week’s full-page ad in the New York Times proclaiming “Hamas, ISIS, and Iran…
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The Schmooze Abe Foxman Kvells as Son Ties Knot
(JTA) — Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, a Cuban-American who grew up in Orlando, Fla., didn’t know the Yiddish term for soul mate (bashert) when he bumped into Ariel Foxman on the uptown A train in March 2012. But it’s clear now that that one subway trip was an express route to destiny. In The New York Times’ Vows…
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News Oh No, Onno! Dutch Mayor Quits Over Younger Man Date Photos
The Dutch Jewish politician Onno Hoes stepped down as the mayor of Maastricht after media published secretly filmed footage of him on a date with a 20-year-old man. The publication last week of the footage of Hoes, 53, who is openly gay, followed an earlier paparazzi report from last year in which he was photographed…
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Fast Forward Transgender Activist Leslie Feinberg Dies at 65
Transgender activist Leslie Feinberg died November 15 at age 65, at her home in Syracuse, New York. According to the website Advocate.com, Feinberg died of “complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica.” Feinberg was known for her 1993 novel “Stone Butch Blues,” which won the Lambda Literary Award and is…
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Forward 50 2014 Jared Polis
At 39 and in only his third term in office, Jared Polis is already drawing attention in political circles, thanks to what a Politico profile of the Colorado Democrat called “too much self-confidence and too little self-awareness.” But in his race to the top, the self-made millionaire whose Jewish parents were peace activists in the…
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Life A First in the Jewish World
Jordan Cassway Rabbi Deborah Waxman has been many firsts in her life. She was one of the first bat mitzvahs to be celebrated on a Saturday morning in her hometown of West Hartford, Connecticut in 1979 and now she is the first female rabbi, and the first lesbian, to lead a Jewish congregational institution. Waxman,…
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News Rabbi Gil Steinlauf Wins Wide Support From Conservatives After Coming Out as Gay
(JTA) — Gil Steinlauf, a nationally prominent Conservative rabbi, made headlines this month when he announced to his large Washington, D.C., synagogue that he is gay, and that he and his wife of 20 years would divorce. As surprised as his congregants at Adas Israel may have been by the news, it was Steinlauf, the…
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Opinion How Gil Steinlauf Chose ‘Personal Torah’ Over One True One
A respected Conservative clergyman, Gil Steinlauf, senior rabbi of Washington’s Adas Israel Congregation wrote his congregants a moving letter shortly after Yom Kippur. In it, he announced that he and his wife of 20 years, Batya, would be divorcing. That alone would have been surprise enough for his congregation, considering the model marriage, complete with…
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