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Opinion Rubber Band Experiment Taught Me How Wrong Gay Conversion Therapy Is
“And Thou Shalt Love” disturbed me. It’s about Ohad (Uri Lachmi), an Israeli Yeshiva student who struggles with his homosexuality. Released in 2008, the film uses few words and many strong images. A young man immerses himself in the mikveh, the ritual bath; He says psalms, hoping for a cure, while hiding it from his…
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Life Legendary Producer Barbara Gaines Awarded for LGBT Work
It took all of five seconds for the former executive producer of the Late Show with David Letterman to get the hundreds gathered to honor her rolling in the aisles with laughter. “I’m Barbara Gaines and welcome to my Bat Mitzvah,” she said. “I don’t [know] what’s stranger…the fact that I’m wearing my father’s tuxedo…
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Life 7 YA and Romance Novels for Jewish Book Month
After all the noise surrounding the Nazi Romance book this summer, I looked closer at my own reading list. I could tell someone what books were awful in their treatment of Judaism and Jewish people, but could I recommend books that were wonderful? I couldn’t. A little ashamed, I set off to read books where…
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Life Does the Hebrew Language Have a Gender Problem?
Beneath the rocky alps and the bright blue sky in Salzburg, Austria this summer, fellows at the Eighteen:22 conference for Jewish LGBTQ leaders sat around at the Schloss Leopolskron, the site where “The Sound of Music” was filmed, addressing each other by their preferred gender pronouns PGP, like he, she, and the non-binary, they and…
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Forward 50 2015 Evan Wolfson
When Evan Wolfson wrote his Harvard Law School thesis on gay marriage in 1983, it was considered a fringe idea. Thirty-two years later, Wolfson had his “I told you so” moment when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015. “Love won,” Wolfson wrote in The New York Times that day. As…
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Breaking News Italian Soccer Chief Says Jews Should Be Kept ‘At Bay’
The president of the Italian Football Federation said he has “nothing against” Jews and gays, but that he prefers to keep such people at a distance. The comments by Carlo Tavecchio were recorded for an interview with the online magazine Soccer Life and published on the website of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Tavecchio…
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Life Revisiting the Sheva Berakhot, Or Seven Blessings on Marriage
1. Blessed art Thou, O L-rd our G-d, King of the universe who hast created the fruit of the vine. In my twenties, when weddings should have been ordinary, I avoided them. Back in the 1990s, marriage, to me, was an institution of derision, exclusive of queers and anachronistic for women. Weddings were an artifice,…
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Opinion Why Is Chabad Helping Christian Extremists?
As readers of this column know, I have long praised Chabad Lubavitch’s spirituality, its outreach tactics and its mystical roots. But over the past several years, Chabad leaders have begun propping up far-right Christian extremists — not mere cultural conservatives, or right-wing politicians, but the extreme fringe that opposes human rights and, in some cases,…
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture How my odious cousin Roy Cohn was responsible for creating Donald Trump — and me
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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