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Meet Israel’s First Out Transgender Nurse, Maya Orabi

Deborah Danan August 14, 2019

The queerness of love: A Jewish case for same-sex marriage

Jewish Journal January 24, 2013

Last year, I officiated at the first same-sex wedding in the 145-year history of my synagogue. For a Conservative congregation, this was quite a break with tradition.

He’s my …

Teresa Strasser April 7, 2005

The term \”boyfriend\” is like the knee joint on someone who is morbidly obese. It is being asked to do way more than it was designed to do. It is buckling under the pressure. Where it once could do the job, it is now carrying too much weight

Hair Club for Jews

Carin Davis December 18, 2003

Hi. My name is Carin and I have a Jewfro.

Heeb hair. A Moses mop. A latke lid. I\’m down with my fun girl curls, but I can\’t say the same for the men I meet. My big hair is the Mason-Dixon Line of my L.A. dating life. Some men love the untamed, wild, bed-head look of my natural waves. But many men prefer I play it straight.