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Bathrooms accessible for transgender people are old news at Camp JRF, the Reconstructionist movement’s summer camp in South Sterling, Pa. Five years ago they posted signs on bathroom doors stating: “This bathroom may be used by any person regardless of gender identity or expression.”
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Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, this year’s ROI Summit will host 150 young Jewish activists in Jerusalem to collaborate and problem- solve about issues in the global Jewish community.
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In the wake of the Orlando shooting, statements of solidarity with the LGBTQ community quickly tumbled forth. Some expressions of support came from unlikely sources such as the Orthodox Union and the Catholic Church. But what does a statement of solidarity mean in response to a crisis when it is not expressed in ordinary times?
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In wake of Orlando rampage, ramping up security and a new urgency on gun laws.
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Idit Klein, head of Keshet, says the first calls of solidarity after Orlando shooting came from Muslim leaders.
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Jewish groups in Massachusetts are hailing the passage of a bill by the state’s House of Representatives that will extend the anti-discrimination protections for transgender people in public accommodations.
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While Massachusetts lawmakers debate a bill on transgender public accommodations, many Jewish organizations are ahead of the curve on fighting discrimination of trans individuals.
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We get it: Most Jewish families don’t yearn to make their Passover seders longer.
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Matt Nosanchuk, White House’s representative to the Jewish community, discusses Hanukkah parties, the Iran deal, and his personal pride in Obama’s same-sex marriage push.
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Starting this Saturday at sundown is the Jewish holiday of Purim, a celebration of Persian Jews’ resilience in the face of an impending extermination. Growing up, I always enjoyed the holiday, which included costumes and hamentashen (triangular fruit-filled cookies), but I’ve come to form a deeper appreciation about it as a queer, secular Jewish adult. Here’s why:
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A group of American and Israeli LGBTQ Jews that was scheduled to appear at the largest conference of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer activists in the United States this week has been booted from the event because of pressure by anti-Israeli activists, the group says.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion in society is ethically mandated by Jewish textual tradition that exists in “a constant state of dialogue of reflection, of interpretation and reinterpretation,” argued Idit Klein, who serves as the executive director of Keshet, an organization that works toward LGBT inclusion in all aspects of Jewish life.
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Advocacy group Keshet will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its breakout film “Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School” at a reception and panel discussion at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 10, at 160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre.
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On Thursday, the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) unanimously approved the Resolution on the Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-comforming People at its Biennial meeting in Orlando, FL.
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Biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism overwhelmingly backed motion Thursday detailing steps to be taken by synagogues and congregations.
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In a historic vote Thursday morning, the Union of Reform Judaism—the representative body for the largest of America’s Jewish denominations—approved a groundbreaking transgender rights bill, the most far-reaching resolution of this kind of any major religious group in the United States, reports The Jewish Daily Forward.
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When Rabbi Elliot Kukla became the first out transgender rabbi ordained in the Reform Jewish movement almost a decade ago, he would get questions from other rabbis along the lines of “There’s a transgender congregant coming to services. What should I do?” He would tell the other rabbis to greet them with, “Shabbat shalom,” the traditional welcome for anybody.
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It has been 10 years since the release of Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School. The film, which chronicled 16-year-old Shulamit Izen’s sometimes bumpy journey to identify as a lesbian at The New Jewish High School (now called Gann Academy) in suburban Boston, marked a turning point for the Jewish LGBT community.
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Greater MetroWest is joining about 500 communities around the country that have received training in how to make their Jewish institutions “safe and inclusive” for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Jews.
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Here’s the jam: I am a woman, married to a man, but I identify as bisexual.
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