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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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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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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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Hineini (Hebrew for "here I am") follows high school student Shulamit Izen's efforts to establish a gay/straight alliance at the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston (nicknamed "New Jew").
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The newsletter sent out last month by Temple Israel of New Rochelle contained the usual sort of announcements, including a reminder about the synagogue’s upcoming Purim carnival, mazal tovs and condolences, and nformation about a social event at a local steakhouse. But a small notice about a screening of the film “Hineini: Coming Out In a Jewish High School” reflected a quiet change at the Reform synagogue in suburban New York.
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At the official release on Sunday, Sept. 21 in Boston of the ground-breaking documentary “Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School” on DVD, and a companion curriculum, some 75 local rabbis, educators, and supporters gathered to see film star Shulamit Izen, director Irena Fayngold, and take in a performance by local folk-pop artist Catie Curtis.
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In 2005 the film Hineini, a documentary about a student at a Boston Jewish day school trying to start a gay/straight alliance (GSA), helped jumpstart a debate on LGBT inclusion in Jewish schools and communities. The film, a collaboration between the Boston-based LGBT Jewish advocacy group Keshet and filmmaker Irena Fayngold, became a powerful teaching tool for Keshet, which has sponsored screenings at schools and synagogues across the country.
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Unwittingly, these educators and leaders may be excluding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Jews from the conversation, the curriculum, and even the institution. Questions and comments like these can make GLBT Jews uncomfortable, and they may see them as disrespectful and upsetting.
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Let’s say you get a memo from work, a Jewish organization, instructing you to leave home any part of your identity that doesn’t conform to Jewish tradition. Sure, there’s room for interpretation. But let’s just say you’re gay. Or lesbian. Or transsexual. And you’re pretty sure you get the subtext. Then what?
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Grassroots organization promotes GLBT inclusion within Jewish community.
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Back in 2005 Keshet was a small Jamaica Plain-based organization focused on advocating for LGBT inclusion within the Jewish community in the Boston area; its executive director, Idit Klein, was the organization’s lone full time employee. That year Keshet, working with director Irena Fayngold, released a documentary film, Hineini, chronicling the experience of a girl coming out as a lesbian at a Jewish school in Waltham and trying to organize a gay/straight alliance.
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Barbara and Alan Sidman of Salem are the proud parents of a gay son who lives in New York. They hope some day that Michael will return to the North Shore and make it his home, but they believe that the chances are slim. One of the problems, in their opinion, is that the North Shore Jewish community is not particularly welcoming to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) singles and families.
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