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Jan 2005 1

Q+A Irena Fayngold

Director Irena Fayngold’s documentary Hineini (boston-keshet.org) is about a teen’s struggle to form a gay-straight alliance in her Jewish high school in Boston and how the process changed everyone, including four closeted gay teachers who came out. Fayngold tells curve about the experience.

View the original at Curve
Q+A Irena Fayngold
Jun 2004 18

Keshet offers a proud alternative

Picnic brings together Jewish community for Pride.

View the original at Bay Windows Online
Keshet offers a proud alternative
Jan 2004 1

Philly day school bathroom seen as symbol of transgender inclusion

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.

View the original at The Jewish Chronicle
Philly day school bathroom seen as symbol of transgender inclusion