Response to Dennis Prager
Rabbi Lori Shapiro
December 8, 2015
When earlier last month Mr. Prager assailed against non-orthodox Judaism as not going deep enough with Torah, I championed his cause.
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transgender
Member of prominent Chasidic family comes out as transgender
Jewish Journal
November 18, 2015
A 24-year-old Brooklyn descendant of one of Hasidic Judaism’s founders has come out as transgender.
Thousands celebrate gay pride in Tel Aviv
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2015
Tens of thousands of people participated in Tel Aviv’s annual gay pride parade, whose theme this year was the transgender community.
Caitlyn Jenner asked to be guest of honor for Tel Aviv Gay Pride Week
Jewish Journal
June 4, 2015
The City of Tel Aviv invited Caitlyn Jenner to be a guest of honor at its Gay Pride Week celebration.
Letters to the Editor: Cornel West, Transgender Community and Pamela Geller
Jewish Journal
May 13, 2015
As someone privileged to study with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in the 1960s, and hear Cornel West’s presentation on Heschel…
Philly day school bathroom seen as symbol of transgender inclusion
Jewish Journal
March 25, 2015
At most Jewish day schools, naming honors tend to be attached to grand spaces — auditoriums, prayer spaces, gymnasiums and the like. But at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, a pluralistic day school in suburban Philadelphia, Patrick Rock’s name will forever be associated with what might seem to be a rather ordinary space: a bathroom.\n
Transgender Israeli mother recognized as ‘father’
Jewish Journal
September 16, 2013
Israel’s Interior Ministry has for the first time recognized two biological fathers of the same baby.
California: the left’s laboratory
Dennis Prager
June 6, 2013
Our state of California has become a laboratory. The progressive party, the Democrats, holds every statewide office, from governor on down, and they hold super-majorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Making it easier for LGBT Jewish kids to be open, honest
Ryan E. Smith
November 2, 2011
Someday, maybe every gay Jewish youth will have as easy a time coming out as Elias Rubin did.
Pregnant Israeli man to be a mom
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2011
An Israeli man is pregnant and soon will give birth.
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