Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer and questioning Jews.
As a straight, married woman, I often refer to my husband as my partner. Sari, in your recent post on The Sisterhood, you wrote that you’re discomfited by heterosexuals’ use of the term “partner” to refer to their significant other. I’ve used the term consciously not because I wanted to steal anything semantic from gay…
Lately, something confusing has started to happen. I’ll find myself at a wedding or an academic conference or a dinner party and I’ll meet a heterosexual who invariably makes reference to his or her “partner,” a term once employed mainly by gays and lesbians to refer to same-sex significant others. Now, in what seems to…
New research indicates that homophobia is rife in Israel. Responding to a survey conducted by the school of psychology at the Center for Academic Studies in Or Yehuda, one-third of people said they are “disgusted” by sex between men. Only 6% of respondents said the same about sex between women. Some 19% of parents said…
With Tennessee voters set to decide in November whether to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the issue is creating tension between religious and political values for many women in Nashville’s Jewish community. The struggle played out last week as about 75 individuals, from both Hadassah and the community at large, turned out for…
When Abe Newman and his partner, Craig Pollack, discussed the possibility of marriage, they decided that they wanted their ceremony to be infused with Jewish traditions. Last weekend, even though a friend who is not a rabbi officiated their ceremony in Massachusetts, they stood beneath a chupah and smashed not one but two light bulbs….
With leaders of Conservative Judaism predicting an end to the outright ban on gay ordination and same-sex marriage, some of the movement’s more traditional Canadian synagogues are threatening to form a breakaway coalition. Several movement leaders, speaking at an August 24 meeting in New York, said that the ordination of gay rabbis and the sanctioning…
The ordination of gay rabbis and the sanctioning of same-sex marriage within Conservative Judaism is near certain, according to movement leaders who spoke at a meeting in New York on Thursday night. Organized by the movement’s congregational arm, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the gathering offered a preview of the halachic opinions on homosexuality…
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