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(JTA) — In the 1980s, Dennis Neill, an employee of our family business, came out as gay to my late father, Charles Schusterman. Coming out in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the height of the AIDS crisis was a risky thing to do, and it could have cost Dennis his job. But…
Read moreRabbi Adina Lewittes (Dini) is the founding rabbi of Sha’ar, a northern NJ/NYC-based, values-driven Jewish community oriented around the call to societal, environmental and spiritual sustainability. Sha’ar provides multiple gateways into Jewish life exemplified by a commitment to inclusiveness, diversity, innovation, scholarship, excellence and collaboration. Dini recently served as the Scholar…
Read moreKeshet’s President & CEO, Idit Klein, and Board Chair, Seth M. Marnin, issued the following Statement on the Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a crisis for our community We are deeply concerned about the lasting harm to LGBTQ…
Read moreKeshet’s President & CEO, Idit Klein, and Board Chair, Seth M. Marnin, issued the following Statement on the Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a crisis for our community We are deeply concerned about the lasting harm to LGBTQ…
Read morePublished on 05.11.2015 It all began with an eleven-year-old transgender camper named Hannah. Ahead of the summer of 2014, Hannah’s mother Tamar Gendler phoned Louis Bordman, the 55-year-old director of Camp Eisner, the Reform Jewish Movement’s summer camp her child had been attending for the past three years. The purpose…
Read moreby Idit Klein | October 7, 2020 I am deeply troubled that Justices Thomas and Alito took steps to dismantle marriage equality on their first day back at the Supreme Court after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg z”l. It is both not a surprise and an outrage that they…
Read moreOSSINING, N.Y. — One morning last summer, Connie Knapp got a phone call from her minister. Several days earlier, the Supreme Court had handed down a ruling fortifying the movement for same- sex marriage. Her pastor, the Rev. Chip Low, had a feeling that Ms. Knapp and her…
Read moreTucked somewhere between the Scrabble Club and the Yiddish Club on the roster of 40 student organizations on the website of Gann Academy, the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, is this listing for the group Open House: ‘’The gay-straight alliance at Gann Academy advocates for understanding and tolerance…
Read moreBOSTON (JTA) — At the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington, 50 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews and their allies gathered in a small room on the ninth floor of the conference hotel. The event was not part of the official GA program,…
Read moreIn the poignant opening frames of the new film “Hineini,” Shulamit Izen thumbs through stacks of books at her local library, searching for an answer to the following question: “Is it possible to be Jewish and a lesbian?” In the hourlong documentary, filmmaker Irena Fayngold looks back at Izen’s quest…
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