Posts Tagged: Israel Gay
Do American Jews Get to Truly Belong in Our Society Today?
For decades, California State Senator Scott Wiener (D) has helped support California's LGBTQ movement. Last week, according to his own account and published reports, he...
Pride and Prejudice: How Antisemitism Captured LGBTQ+ Spaces
Pride began as a celebration of survival. The foundational belief was simple and radical: the closet is a form of violence. Hiding who you are...
BBC Takes Aim at Israel in Report on Beheading of Gay Palestinian Man in Hebron
The horrific killing of Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, a 25-year-old gay Palestinian, in the West Bank town of Hebron last week was rightly met with shock...
Orthodoxy and Gay Conversion Therapy
Over the weekend, Israeli Education Minister and Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz trod gleefully upon a social-political landmine in affirming his belief in the...
For Many Jews, Being Gay Means Learning to Love Yourself
Imagine this. When you were four, you realized that there was something different about you. On Thursdays, your kindergarten held pretend Shabbats, where the children...
Gays in Muslim Countries Face Destruction
We continue to learn new information about Omar Mateen, the man who carried out the massacre in the Orlando nightclub -- but many questions remain unanswered, and...
Gay Couples Included in New IDF Policy to Protect Children of Enlisted Soldiers
Gay and straight couples with children will no longer have to deal with situations where both parents are enlisted for reserve service. The IDF recently...
Exposing the ‘Pinkwashing’ Lie
On Wednesday, thousands of tourists from around the world arrived in Israel for the Nonstop Gay Festival, a joint venture of the Tourism Ministry and...
Israel Recognizes Two Biological Fathers of Child for First Time
JNS.org - In a precedent-setting move, Israel's Interior Ministry has recognized two men as the biological father of a baby boy. The baby is the son...
Israelis Celebrate Gay Pride With Annual Tel Aviv Parade
Times of Israel - The city of Tel Aviv hosted its 15th annual Gay Pride Festival on Friday, with over a hundred thousand spectators...
What the 2012 Gay Pride Parade and Israel Parade Had in Common
Summertime in Manhattan brings many things: street festivals, open hydrants, crime, Con-Ed outages, Jews for Jesus and parades. Earlier in June, I marched in the Israel...
City University of New York Resolves to Balance Out Anti-Israel “Pinkwashing” Conference
Following the Anti-Defamation League's condemnation of the"Homonationalism and Pinkwashing" conference, which plans to accuse Israel of using its positive record on LGBT issues to deflect...
Israel Defense Forces Go Gay for the Day
The recent international Gay Pride celebrations have not skipped over the manliest of manly bastions in Israel, the Israel Defense Forces. On Monday,...
Time for Israel to Broaden the Conversation
Simply put, in order to improve Israel's overall global position, we must broaden the conversation beyond just "the conflict" and look at Israel...
