Posts Tagged: Israel LGBT
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...
Reclaiming Jewish Pride in an Age of Rising Hatred — I Am Done Being Quiet
To be Jewish in this moment is to be caught between ancestral trauma and modern-day terror. It is to scroll through social media and see...
LGBT+ Community Is a ‘Culture of Perversion,’ Say Palestinian UNRWA Workers
All the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) wanted was to declare the obvious -- that the LGBT+ community should be treated equally in...
The Real ‘Pinkwashing’ Is Done by Palestinians
British arts and culture magazine Dazed has run a gushing piece about an upcoming movie festival, "Queer Cinema for Palestine" (QCP), which will reportedly celebrate...
Israel Respects Gay Rights; the Palestinians Do Not
The University of Pittsburgh’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a meeting in October on the topic of “pinkwashing” -- the accusation...
Another LGBTQ Milestone for Israel — Which Goes Ignored by the World
It didn’t make major headlines, but Israel quietly swore in its sixth openly gay Knesset member on Monday, Yorai Lahav Hertzanu of Blue and White....
Stop Using Religion to Cloak Your Homophobia
Recently, a lot of people have been asking me for my thoughts on the Torah and the LGBT community. The reality is that mainstream Orthodoxy...
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...
Where Is Jewish ‘Pride’?
Perhaps the most surprising part of the DC Dyke March, which sought to ban rainbow flags embossed with the Star of David, was how surprised...
The DC Dyke March: When the Oppressed Become the Oppressor
It seems that a segment of the infamous Dyke March has once again exposed itself as being a bastion of hypocrisy and bigotry. In theory, the...
The Truth About Israel’s Record on LGBT Rights
The Guardian published an article this week that obfuscated Israel’s progressive record on LGBT rights. The piece ("Gay Israelis hold mass wedding to campaign for same-sex...
LGBTQ Birthright Israel Trip Offers Raw Emotion and Self-Discovery
JNS.org - “It’s a deconstructed Star of David,” said Amy Osaiason, showing off the tattoo that she and two other LGBTQ Birthright Israel participants had just...
Confessions of a College Zionist
A few weeks ago, while tabling for an event with my pro-Israel student group -- Mustangs United for Israel -- we were approached by a student...
