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News At Jewish sleepaway camps this summer, bunks and bathrooms accommodate any gender identity
Increasingly at non-Orthodox camps, there isn’t simply a boys side and a girls side
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News BBYO’s Orlando convention plans pose a Florida conundrum for LGBTQ Jews and their allies
The Jewish youth group is planning a mammoth centennial celebration in Orlando, amid the state’s new restrictions on queer youth
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News Citing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, a South Carolina rabbi plans to move
Rabbi Greg Kanter was one of the first out gay rabbis in the United States
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Opinion My family fled persecution as Jews in Egypt. 70 years later, I may have to leave my home because I’m trans
I’m a trans rabbi in Missouri, where gender-affirming healthcare is now largely illegal
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Fast Forward He racked up millions of likes for being a proud gay Haredi. Then he was outed as a fake.
‘I'm extremely upset that he is falsely portraying an experience without the nuance of living it,’ one person commented
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Fast Forward Survey: Jews are the most accepting group toward trans people
Only 32% of Jews said they strongly agree there are only two genders while 7 out of 10 said they’d be comfortable learning a friend is trans
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News That Jewish News Show: An Orthodox rabbi on why his synagogue supports the LGBTQ+ community
Laura and Benyamin discuss LGBTQ+ issues in the Orthodox community, the eye-popping antisemitic emails between two Los Angeles attorneys and what advice the Talmud and Jewish tradition has for Taylor Swift fans
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Culture It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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