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News Gay Israeli Fathers-to-Be Find Unexpected Community in Minnesota’s Twin Cities
A new father stands up to his waist in water and accepts his tiny, naked, newborn daughter from his husband, who crouches on the tiled floor just outside the mikveh. A beit din, or Jewish court, of three rabbis, plus some new friends of the couple, fills the resounding space with song, inviting the Divine…
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Life Throwback Thursday: Tennis Star in Men’s Shorts
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Helen Hull Jacobs, pictured here in 1933, was a world champion American women’s tennis player who ranked in the global top 10 from 1928 to 1939. Known for her powerful serve and…
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Opinion Gay Jewish Trailblazers Set Forward 50 Mark
For the first time ever, the Forward 50 was launched with a profile celebrating a gay Jewish woman — and the kvelling was just starting for gay Jewish achievers. Edie Windsor made the Top 5 for her role in the fight for marriage equality: on June 26, she won her suit at the Supreme Court,…
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Forward 50 2013 Alan Van Capelle
“I speak to you as an American Jew,” stated Alan van Capelle as he addressed a crowd of thousands standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the event marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. His representation of the Jewish community at this historic event was a clear sign of van…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Praise Senate on Anti-Gay Bias Bill
An array of liberal Jewish groups lauded the U.S. Senate for passing a bill that would extend to gays federal anti-discrimination protections. “Today’s bipartisan Senate passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is an overdue and historic accomplishment in our nation’s effort to end workplace discrimination for the LGBT community,” Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of…
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Forward 50 2013 Edith Windsor
The Forward 50 is our annual look at the American Jews who made a difference in the past year. Each day, we will spotlight one of our Top 5 picks, leading up to Sunday night when the entire package — along with some very special surprises — will go live. Who would have predicted that…
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The Schmooze Can Soy Products Turn You Gay?
An ultra-Orthodox sect has banned its Yeshiva students from eating soy products on the basis that the levels of estrogen found in soy beans could turn the men gay, the Haredi World newspaper reported on Tuesday. School officials are concerned that eating anything containing soy, even just one a week, “can cause unwanted arousal,” and…
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Fast Forward American LGBT Leaders Head to Israel
American LGBT leaders from advocacy organizations, government and academia visited the Gay Center, owned and operated by the city of Tel Aviv. “None of us are aware of another municipality where they are solely funding the LGBT community center,” said Malcolm Lazin, executive director of the Equality Forum, a national and international LGBT civil rights…
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