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Opinion The Best Way To Move the Orthodox World
The Orthodox rabbinate will come around to approving same-sex marriage and equal status for women in Halacha, Jewish law. Provided. Provided that the momentum for such equality in the wider society builds to the point where discrimination is so repugnant that the Orthodox rabbinate feels morally compromised. So if you want Orthodoxy to alter its…
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Breaking News Trial Begins in Orthodox ‘Gay Conversion’ Therapy Case
The fraud trial for an Orthodox Jewish group that promotes so-called conversion therapy for homosexuals opened in New Jersey. In opening statements Wednesday in state Superior Court in Jersey City, an attorney for four former patients accused Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, of offering “junk science” and lies, The Associated Press reported….
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Breaking News Day-Old Israeli Twin Baby of Surrogate Mom Dies in Nepal
An Israeli baby born to a surrogate mother in a Nepal field hospital died less than a day after his birth. The baby boy, a twin, died Wednesday night in Kathmandu in a tent in a field hospital set up following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25 that has killed thousands. Following the earthquake,…
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Breaking News Israel Is No. 7 Best Country for Gays
Israel is the world’s seventh-best country for gay men, according to a poll of 115,000 gay men in 127 countries. The Gay Happiness Index, a collaboration of the gay dating network Planet Romeo and researchers from Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, named Iceland the best country for gay men, followed in order by three…
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Breaking News Gay Film Fest Bans Flag Ads After Israel Flap
A gay film festival in Vancouver banned “overt expressions of nationalism” after organizers came under fire over an advertisement featuring an Israeli flag. The advertisement in last year’s guidebook for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, placed by the local gay Jewish group Yad b’Yad, featured a gay pride flag alongside an Israeli flag. That led…
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Opinion A ‘Fight of the Century’ Over ‘Pinkwashing’ and Israel
The Internet is still recovering from Mayweather vs. Pacquaio, but I’ve been fantasizing about a different “fight of the century” starring two outspoken LGBT agitators: Lucas versus Spade. I’ve just read two extreme position statements on Israel/Palestine, both from within the LGBT community. One, from the right, was directed at me in an op-ed by…
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Culture ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ Gets a New Look For Mother’s Day
Leslea Newman’s iconic picture book “Heather Has Two Mommies” had a simple beginning. A woman approached Newman on the street in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she lived at the time, and said her family needed a book to which her daughter could relate. Meaning that she wanted to read a book to her daughter that featured…
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Opinion R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Why Lag B’Omer Matters
Twenty four thousand students who studied with the famed 2nd Century Rabbi Akiva were killed by a terrible plague. What sin made them deserving of such a wipeout? “They did not treat each other with respect,” the Talmud says plainly. What does the holiday of Lag B’Omer, which arrives this evening, have to do with…
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