Women’s March D.C.: Here for one another
Samara Hutman
January 23, 2017
Sunday I boarded a plane back to LA after walking with my daughter Rebecca, 22, at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C.
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Inauguration, march test capital rabbis
Jewish Journal
January 19, 2017
On Jan. 20, the United States inaugurates a new president and ushers in an era of new policies and rhetoric.
100 anti-Semitic incidents reported in US post-election, watchdog finds
Jewish Journal
November 29, 2016
One hundred anti-Semitic incidents occurred in the 10 days following the presidential election, representing about 12 percent of hate incidents in the U.S. recorded by a civil rights watchdog.
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, Jews join in to show support
Eitan Arom
November 22, 2016
For most, the experience of growing up as the Jewish child of a transgender father is recognizable only as the plot of the television series “Transparent.” But for Jackie Malie Mason, that was her childhood.
Jewish women’s group on Trump: ‘We will fight this with everything we have’
Bill Boyarsky
November 22, 2016
Donald Trump’s election to the presidency poses special challenges to many members of the Jewish community.
The challenge of our time
Jewish Journal
September 29, 2016
In the wake of last summer’s horrific massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, I wrote to the Shalhevet community about our responsibility to take active steps to create safer spaces for the LGBT community.
The Pledge
Jewish Journal
September 29, 2016
I am a gay Orthodox Jewish teen. That in and of itself may be one of the most controversial sentences in modern Jewish history, but it’s also simply my life.
Workshop aims to change Orthodox LGBTQ conversation
Jewish Journal
September 21, 2016
If you type “Orthodox Judaism” into the Google search engine, the first suggestion that comes up is “Orthodox Judaism food” (nothing like Mom’s matzo ball soup!), the second is “Orthodox Judaism rules” (we certainly have a lot of them) and the third is “Orthodox Judaism homosexuality.”
Shalhevet head urges Orthodox community to take on LGBT acceptance
Eitan Arom
September 16, 2016
Something’s eating Rabbi Ari Segal.
At Jerusalem Pride March, Orthodox welcome
Jewish Journal
July 22, 2016
It had been a rough week or so for Israel’s LGBT community.
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