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Opinion I’m a gay Black Jew, and I feel abandoned by the allies I’ve supported for years
Why is the LGBTQ+ community pledging allegiance to a regime that wants to kill us?
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News Orthodox Judaism has its first openly gay congregational rabbi. This is his story.
When a therapist proposed integrating his rabbinical and queer selves a few years ago, Rabbi Shua Brick just laughed
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Archive From the archive: Orthodox sage ‘comes out’ as a center debuts in Jerusalem
Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg in 1999 revealed his queer identity in the Forward and the Israeli newspaper, Ma'ariv
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Opinion A campus LGBTQ+ group broke ties with its Hillel over Israel. Where are queer Jewish students supposed to go?
Rice Pride's severing of its relationship with Houston Hillel sets a dangerous precedent
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News Israel’s judicial overhaul is facing a new test — but for protesters, the fight is about much more than the courts
LGBTQ+ protesters, women and other minority groups worry their rights are under attack
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News Girls wore pants. Prayer was optional. Was this modern Orthodox school too open-minded for its own good?
The Idea School attracted queer students and others who appreciated its belief that students should pilot their own religious journeys
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Culture What the Jewish author behind one of America’s most banned books has to say about censorship today
David Levithan, a pioneering author of queer young adult novels, is part of a landmark lawsuit against a Florida school district's book bans
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Opinion What’s really at stake in the legal struggle between Yeshiva University and its LGBTQ+ students
YU claims to be fighting for religious liberty, despite considerable internal opposition to its legal offensive
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Fast Forward Netanyahu now faces arrest in several Western countries following ICC warrant
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Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
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News What Mike Huckabee’s ‘Kids Guide to Israel’ says about his views
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Opinion I’m a rabbi in Columbus. Here’s my answer to the neo-Nazis
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