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Fast Forward Investigation says many students at LA rabbinical school experienced sexism and homophobia but it was not ‘systematic’
‘We hear you deeply and pledge to do better,’ said a letter from American Jewish University
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News Stan Polovets, Genesis Prize chief, accused of sexual assault in lawsuit
An anonymous woman said the businessman and philanthropist drugged and assaulted her after a date in 2021
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Opinion Nonbinary genders beyond ‘male’ and ‘female’ would have been no surprise to ancient rabbis, who acknowledged tumtums, androgynos and aylonot
People sometimes assume religious traditions’ ideas about gender have always been conservative and unchanging
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Fast Forward Survey: Jews are the most accepting group toward trans people
Only 32% of Jews said they strongly agree there are only two genders while 7 out of 10 said they’d be comfortable learning a friend is trans
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Culture Question everything you think you know about the universe: Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The key to understanding the universe scientifically is questioning everything you think you know — which also happens to be one of the fundamental tenets of Judaism. That’s the conclusion Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reaches with her book, “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.” Describing her work as living “at the…
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Letters Jewish Continuity Isn’t Sexist — It’s Necessary
Is Jewish continuity inherently sexist? In some people’s minds, like the author of a recent op-ed in these pages, Jewish continuity is toxically identified with Jewish sociologist Steven M. Cohen. I’m neither judge nor jury, but if the #MeToo allegations against Cohen are true, and they may well be, the prominent sociologist should be held…
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Opinion Zeev Porath Chronicled Nazi Rapists And Other Atrocities – In His Drawings
Sometime in 1943, a 35-year-old architect sat at a drafting desk on the third floor of the headquarters building in the infamous Janowska concentration camp in Lviv in what is now Ukraine. Over 80,000 Jews were murdered at this camp and it served as the main deportation center for 160,000 Jews of Lviv (a number…
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