A government rabbinic court in Jerusalem has issued an order prohibiting a woman from bringing her children to meet her female romantic partner. According to Israel’s Center for Women’s Justice, the rabbinic court’s order came during divorce proceedings between the woman and her husband. The couple agreed that the woman would have custody of the…
Photo by Michael Peake/Toronto Sun Sue-Ann Levy doesn’t sound like the devil, which a 2012 headline in a Toronto publication, The Grid, suggested she might be. In fact, the woman who picked up the phone to chat with the Forward’s Michael Kaminer has a sweet, chirpy voice and an endearingly cheery manner. But these qualities…
Getty Images “A nice girl came to me and expressed interest in renting my apartment. She also informed me that she was in a relationship with a woman. Given her relationship status, is there a Jewish law preventing me from renting the apartment to her?” When this question was recently posted to one of Israel’s…
Tania Ward and Nicola Pettit / Courtesy of Nicola Pettit (Haaretz) — Tania Ward and Nicola Pettit will make history this Saturday when they become one of the first same-sex couples to legally marry in Britain. More than that, their marriage will be among the first to receive a Jewish blessing, as Liberal and Reform…
An activist wearing a mask of Russian President Vladimir Putin joins protesters on the opening day of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. / Getty Images As the winter Olympics open today, there has been a crescendo of condemnation in the West of Russia’s many human rights violations. Sadly, in spite of all the attention Vladimir…
(Haaretz) — Israel is famously tolerant of its gay community, by and large, for which two penguins at the Ramat Gan Safari park can bless their lucky stars. Penguins pair for life, choosing their mate during adolescence. They do the same at the Ramat Gan Zoological Center. Thusly did Suki and Chupchikoni, two young Jackass…
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…
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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