Jersey Shore vs. Chaz Bono – Who is Classy? Who is Trashy?

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 18, 2011

Jersey Shore: Lesbians + Steroids + Fists = a Situation in Italy

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 26, 2011

New York Does the Right Thing and Legalizes Same Sex Marriage

By Ilana Angel
Published on June 24, 2011

Same-sex unions roil Jews in former Soviet Union

By Vladimir Matveyev
Published on October 12, 2006

The resignation of a longtime leader of one of the largest Reform congregations in Ukraine has thrown the spotlight on a bitter controversy over homosexuality within the post-Soviet Reform movement.

Cool Songs? It’s a Miracle!

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on December 8, 2005

The popular Jewish online dating site expanded its search capabilities this month to allow gay men -- and also lesbians -- to seek matches. The Web site now asks people for their gender and the gender they're searching, allowing men to search for men and women to search for women.

Gay Jews Line Up to Wed

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on February 19, 2004

Rabbi Yoel Kahn originally married 13 years ago, but on Monday he tied the knot again -- to the same man.

Kahn, who leads a congregation in Sonoma, first wed his longtime partner Dan Dellm under a chuppah (Jewish wedding canopy), but on Monday they finally secured a marriage license from the City and County of San Francisco.

Producer Channels

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 5, 2004

Gays weren't even on the radar in Ilene Chaiken's Jewish community in Philadelphia back in the 1960s.

Not Exactly Blanche and Dorothy

By Keren Engelberg
Published on July 11, 2002

Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz seem like your typical 60-something Jewish ladies from Brooklyn. And they are in many ways, but they just also happen to be lesbians.

Women Who Don’t Need Men

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on March 14, 2002

The frothy if sometimes clichéd romance, a lesbian take on "Sex and the Single Girl," puts a new spin on the saga of the befuddled single woman ("Annie Hall" meets "Bridget Jones' Diary").

Open-Door Policy

By Ruth Stroud
Published on June 19, 1997

They are your brother, your cousin, your lawyer, your best friend, or possibly yourself. Yet, while there are as many gays, lesbians and bisexuals in the Jewish community as in any other, they often feel like outcasts in their own faith, afraid that they can't be open about their sexuality and a committed Jew as well.