The Jewish LGBTQ Story:
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After leaving Wall Street for the stand-up stage, the gay, married Orthodox comedian is serious about Judaism, inclusion and making you laugh. ...
Amichai Lau-Lavie and Sandi DuBowski are in conversation with Lau-Lavie’s longtime friend, journalist and writer Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, author of Theodore Bikel’s The City of Light, about the Sabbath Queen and what it means to be in the "messy middle." ...
A new documentary explores the life and 1924 assassination of gay Haredi anti-Zionist Dutch Jewish poet and lawyer Jacob de Haan. ...
Fifty years ago, the Washington Post declared: “Doctors Rule Homosexuals Not Abnormal.” Today, December 15, marks the anniversary of the
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Fifty years ago my father led the psychiatric establishment in declaring that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, changing the tide of how being gay was seen in America. ...
"Way back when I was a normal yeshiva boy playing rabbi, I thought I was right about gay men not really being gay and that they should stop this nonsense and get right with Torah and find a nice Jewish girl. Until one day." ...
Neo-Nazis have a real problem with drag queens. Is it misplaced? Historical? Antisemitic? What does the larger “anti-grooming” crowd make of it? ...
In 2001 Moment published an article about the underground gay community among Orthodox Jews. This piece by Naomi Grossman remains
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Aside from her pastoral responsibilities, Aviv, as one of the few lesbian rabbis in Colorado, feels this tragedy on a personal level. ...
Barney Frank was the first member of Congress to voluntarily acknowledge being gay in 1987. Frank joins his former congressional aide, Eric Orner, author of the new graphic novel Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, in conversation about growing up Jewish, his lifelong crusade for civil rights and ...
Yochai Greenfeld was subjected to conversion therapy in his Israel. That process, and his recovery, is the subject of 'It Gets Bitter." ...
"I get paid to go to YU,” said Joy Ladin, an openly transgender professor at Stern College, in her speech. “But queer students are paying to be trashed in classes to have humanity denied, to have halacha warped around values of homophobia and xenophobia and transphobia, rather than values that ...