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Life Jews, Talking To Our Families About Violence Against Transgender People Is Our Obligation
On Sunday night I was in the balcony of a packed sanctuary of a Brooklyn synagogue that was hosting a literary event. A loud, cracking sound split the air behind me. Another time, a disruption like that would have triggered automatic head-swiveling, that jerk of human curiosity that forces you to turn with interest towards…
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Life Think Orthodox Students Don’t Want To Talk LGBTQ Issues? Not Anymore At YU
In a rare, student-led effort to address LGBTQ issues, dozens of Yeshiva University students crowded a classroom in the university’s Midtown campus on Tuesday evening for an event on topics such as coming out as gay on campus, creating social change and becoming allies to queer peers. Guest speaker Ben Katz, a Yeshiva University graduate…
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The Schmooze Jill Soloway Of ‘Transparent’ Wants To ‘Reclaim’ The Word Zionism
You can love Israel and want it to exist without loving Israel’s current government or every aspect of Israeli society. That’s the radical (or not) message Jill Soloway, creator of the watershed Jewish family drama “Transparent,” is spreading. Soloway, the auteur behind the four seasons of Amazon Prime’s “Transparent” and the network’s short-lived “I Love…
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The Schmooze ‘I Don’t Have A Penis’ Jewish Lesbian Wins In Michigan
Dana Nessel, the Jewish lesbian lawyer whose underdog campaign for Michigan Attorney General got its first boost with a penis joke, won the job on election night by a small margin in a state that went red in 2016. “Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting? Is…
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Fast Forward Knesset Rejects Bill Allowing Gay Couples To Have Children Through Surrogates
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Knesset has rejected a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to have children by surrogacy. The bill to extend surrogacy to single men and same-sex parents was voted down Wednesday during a preliminary reading in a 49-41 vote. In July, the Knesset passed a surrogacy law that expanded eligibility to…
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Opinion The Anti-Trans Nuremberg Laws Are Upon Us
When I came out in 1990 as a fifteen-year-old queer (my gender-nonconforming nature required no announcement) and promptly started being public about it, my father sat me down for a talk. My father, who attended a Hillel weekend in college that was surrounded by jeering anti-Semites from which he had to be snuck out a…
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The Schmooze This Deaf Jewish-Asian Transgender Model Just Made History
Chella Man is the first deaf Jewish-Asian model to sign with IMG — one of the most prominent modeling agencies in the world. The agency, which is known for an inclusive work environment, boasts a rolodex of models including Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, Ashley Graham and other industry giants. “There is an extreme lack of…
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Community Celebrating 20 Years Of Family Camp — Just For LGBTQIA+ Jews
20 years ago, Deborah Newbrun was the only openly lesbian director of a Jewish residential camp in the country, and wherever her family engaged in the Jewish community — from preschool to synagogue — she felt like an outsider. “I needed a place as a young lesbian mother where my family could be in the…
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