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Life Parents of Girl Killed at Jerusalem Pride March Urge Public to Attend Event
JERUSALEM — The parents of Shira Banki, the 16-year-old girl who was killed in an attack on participants in last year’s Jerusalem gay pride march, have called on the public to participate in this year’s march. “After Shira’s murder, there were many voices saying that even though they don’t agree with the way of life…
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Breaking News Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Stabber Gets Life in Prison for Murder
JERUSALEM — Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, including a 16-year-old girl fatally, was sentenced to life in prison. On Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court also ordered Schlissel to pay compensation to the family of Shira Banki, the teen who was killed, and to those injured in the July…
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News Camp JRF Aims to Make Summer a Safe Space for LGBTQ Kids
As schools let out for the summer, Camp JRF is preparing to welcome a diverse cohort of kids to its spot among the Pocono Mountains. Affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement and located an hour’s drive from Philadelphia, JRF is pushing to make inclusivity a key part of its mission — in particular, toward kids who…
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Community Why So-Called Orthodox LGBT ‘Allies’ Are Doing It All Wrong
In the past week, two high profile Orthodox rabbis have come out, in writing, in support of LGBT Orthodox Jews. In Gay and Orthodox: An Oxymoron No More Ysoscher Katz, Chair of Talmud at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, argues that it is not impossible to be both gay and Orthodox, arguing that today it is “no…
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Opinion After Orlando, an Open Letter to My Gay Jewish Son
Dear Nadav, The massacre in Orlando was a heartbreaking and horrific attack, one more in the senseless string of killings that have punctuated our lives. But as your father, it also struck another nerve, not just the one that says it could have been you in the Pulse club. Rather, it was the insidious way…
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Opinion Why Orlando Massacre Has America So Angry With Itself — Guns, Islam and Especially Homophobia
For all the rancor in our national discourse over the past decade, it’s hard to remember a moment so dominated by vitriol and mutual loathing as the aftermath of the Orlando shooting. It’s almost as though we’re angrier at each other than at the murderer. In part it’s the toxic impact of Donald Trump. But…
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Opinion Will Orlando Massacre Help Hillary Clinton Unite Nation — or Give Opening to Donald Trump?
The massacre in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and the worst terror incident since 9/11, is a terrible human tragedy, first and foremost. It will shock even those Americans who have grown numb to the daily recurrence of mass-shootings in their country. Orlando, renowned for making children’s dreams come true, will now…
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The Schmooze Lesbian ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Star Says Israeli Women Are All Hot
(JTA) — On her first visit to Israel for Tel Aviv’s gay pride week, “Orange is the New Black” star Lea DeLaria was wowed by the attractiveness of Israeli women. “There are apparently no ugly women in Israel,” DeLaria, who plays a butch lesbian prison inmate on the hit Netflix comedy and is gay in real life, Ynet Tuesday…
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