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About 50 people attended a screening of “Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School” and panel discussion last week at the YJCC in Washington Township.
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As my title suggests, I’m Jewish and queer. Well, more specifically, I’m a trans-masculine, gender queer, queer community organizer. I’m also a Midwestern, Ashkenazi Jew who was raised in a reform, Zionist household. Without going into everything, it’s fair to say I often haven’t felt comfortable bringing my multi-layered self to these communities. Yet while these communities have been uncomfortable, I’ve also continued to stay at least marginally engaged in these spaces.
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Years ago, long before I had really thought about having children of my own, I began collecting children’s books. Not just the ones that had been my own favorites—Where the Wild Things Are, Corduroy and the All-of-a-Kind Family series—but also the new ones that cleverly and entertainingly subverted the dominant heterosexist paradigm.
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After the publication of my article about three Jewish youth movements standing up against bullying, Alicia Zimbalist, public relations manager for the Foundation for Jewish Camp, notified me that her organization had joined the cause as well.
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Shulamit Izen wanted to connect her identity as a lesbian and her identity as a proud Jew. The result was a film chronicling her struggle.
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The Jewish community is rallying behind a pledge to end homophobic bullying and harassment.
View the original at JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People
With support from Keshet, a national grassroots organization dedicated to the full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews in Jewish life, Mayyim Hayyim trained its staff and mikveh guides to be sensitive to the needs and concerns of GLBT Jews.
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Keshet created the “Seven Jewish Values: Guidelines for Inclusive Community” poster as a simple way to connect core Jewish values to our efforts to foster GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) inclusion in the Jewish community.
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What I loved most about this encounter with the BBYO kids was that it was self-evident to them that they were there because they are Jews and to be a Jew means to stand for justice, including justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
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Seated around tables at U.C. Berkeley Hillel, representatives from local, national and international (Israel, Mexico and the U.K.) Jewish LGBT organizations and congregations discussed how to become an actual movement — a lofty idea with goals not easily executed or agreed upon.
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Stuart Milk, the openly gay nephew of the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, inspired a new generation of queer Jewish activists poised to open a new chapter of the LGBT Jew- ish movement.
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Three national Jewish LGBT groups came together to organize the “2010 LGBT Jewish Movement-Building Convening” in the hopes of fostering an organized Jewish LGBT movement.
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Boston-based group Keshet announced June 18 that it will merge with Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity to create the nation's largest organization working for LGBT inclusion in the Jewish community.
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The American Jewish community is generally more progressive than other religious groups when it comes to gay issues... The trouble is that we do not speak with a unified voice.
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The Jewish GLBT organization Keshet is merging with Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
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Two of the country's leading Jewish organizations focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion announced Friday that they are merging, forming the largest American organization working for Jewish LGBT rights.
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One of the country’s largest Jewish-centric foundations - The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation - is making a push to help organizations focused on Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues form a movement.
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In the days leading up to last weekend’s National Equality March, I spent quite a bit of time considering my Judaism. I am a queer Jewish community organizer, and each of those identities informs and shapes the others - my Jewishness is queered and my queer identity particularly Jewish, and my approach to community organizing and activism indelibly marked by both.
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How accepting are area synagogues of families that don't fit the traditional mold of mother, father and children?
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As transgender activists and their supporters continue to lobby the legislature to add gender identity and expression to the Commonwealth’s anti-discrimination statutes, a number of religious institutions gathered in western Massachusetts last Thursday to show their support.
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