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On Tuesday evening we witnessed an amazing display of empowered youth at Tel Yehudah – the national leadership camp of Young Judaea. This was not a staff sponsored or staff run event.
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San Francisco’s Jewish LGBT community is filled with pride this year as it appears that the city by the Bay is emerging as a hub of LGBT Jewish leadership nationally and internationally.
View the original at The Bay Area Reporter
When Sasha Goldberg thinks back to coming out at 14, she recalls the things that made the process easier than it could have been.
View the original at jweekly.com
LGBT civil rights advocate and founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation Stuart Milk and Jewish and LGBT community leader Patty Jacobson were honored by Keshet on March 12 at the Keshet Cabaret, held at The Center for Arts at the Armory (191 Highland Ave., Somerville) from 7 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
View the original at Bay Windows
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.
View the original at New Jersey Jewish Standard
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.
View the original at Punk Torah
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.
View the original at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
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.
View the original at examiner.com
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.
View the original at New Jersey Jewish Standard
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.
View the original at Schusterman Family Foundation: Our Blog
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.
View the original at Tikkun Magazine
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.
View the original at Glaad Blog
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.
View the original at The Jewish Advocate
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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