How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer
A culture with no country is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs, writes the social justice organizer at the Workers Circle
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News Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world’
The organization will soon open centers in Chicago, Baltimore, Florida, Teaneck and Monsey.
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