LGBTQ

Ideas

In Austria under COVID, the Jewish community is thriving — and the gay community is struggling

A community based on social contact and political activism is not the same as a peoplehood bound together by thousands of years of religious tradition.

Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library (Wikimedia Commons)

Yeshiva U students file discrimination complaint over college’s refusal to approve LGBTQ student group

The YU Alliance. a student-run organization that does not receive funding from the student councils, currently holds LGBTQ-related events off-campus.

Yeshiva University student council heads abstain from voting on whether to approve LGBTQ club

The fate of the YU Alliance as an official campus organization will be left to the administration.

The building that used to house the Langside Synagogue in Glasgow, the United Kingdom pictured in 2017. (Courtesy of Michael Mail/The Foundation for Jewish Heritage)

Global

Scottish queer-friendly Jewish community wants to use an abandoned former Orthodox synagogue

Ideas

I don’t want to see another cop car in my synagogue parking lot

Ideas

LGBTQ Israelis are still fighting for equal rights. Anti-Israel activists are trying to erase us.

Israel

Israel’s Meretz party becomes country’s first to elect an openly gay leader

United States

Despite DC controversy, other Dyke Marches welcome Jewish Pride flags

Culture

The life of gay, Jewish bullfighter Sidney Franklin

Israel

First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordained in Jerusalem

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