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The Schmooze Actress Amandla Stenberg Proudly Comes Out As Gay
Correction, August 30: We originally ran this piece based on reporting that suggested Stenberg came of Jewish descent. Subsequent investigation indicates that she does not and we have taken down that part of the article. You’re probably familiar with Amandla Stenberg, most famously known for her role as Rue, in “The Hunger Games.” In real…
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Community 7 Ways Straight Jews Can Become Better LGBTQ Allies
Serving the largest LGBTQ synagogue in the world, as two straight rabbis, makes us a little queer. Not because our jobs place us deep in the LGBTQ community, but because here, we are the exception; and being different, in this sense, makes us…queer. As we prepare for NYC Pride on Sunday, June 24, we wanted…
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Community In Siding With Masterpiece Cakeshop, The OU Made A Tough Choice, But The Correct One
In As An Orthodox Rabbi, The SCOTUS Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Gives Me Pause, Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg objects to the Orthodox Union’s favorable stance toward the Supreme Court’s recent decision, in which the Court ruled that a bakery was not in violation of law for refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. Greenberg,…
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Fast Forward 250,000 Attend Tel Aviv’s 20th Pride Parade
(JTA) — A crowd of 250,000 attended Tel Aviv’s 20th annual Pride Parade, which featured a performance by Israeli Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai. At least 30,000 foreign tourists attended the parade on Friday morning, Haaretz reported. The event, which topped last year’s overall attendance by some 50,000, according to estimates, is held in congruence with LGBTQ Pride…
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Community The SCOTUS Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the long-awaited “Colorado Cake Case,” Masterpiece Cake Shop, Ltd. v. Colorado Human Rights Commission. The case arose when Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece, refused to create a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding. Both sides claimed constitutional protections: the vendors under the First Amendment and the couple…
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Community Israel Has A Fake News Problem, Too
During an interview on the Knesset channel last week, Member of Knesset Bezalel Smotrich was asked to comment on a statement made by his party member, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who recently said she would be willing to welcome LGBT candidates to the party. Smotrich responded by saying that “fundamentally, a religious party can contain,…
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Food Celebrate Pride Month With Rainbow Food, With A Jewish Twist
It’s June, the most magical month of the year. Happy Pride to all the Ls and Gs and Bs and Ts out there, and a very happy Ikea summer sale to the straights! Here are some Jewish pride recipes that any one of you allies or friends beyond the binary can cook. It’s time to…
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Community Five Ways Harvey Milk Inspires My Work For Social Justice
It is difficult to imagine the contours of my life without the influence of one of my heroes: Harvey Milk, a social justice giant and the first openly gay elected official in California. I immigrated to the United States from South Africa in 1977, one year before Harvey’s assassination. As a young Jew who was…
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