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Opposition continues despite new Boy Scout policy
In 2001, Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) overwhelmingly decided to end its sponsorship of Cub Scout Pack 1300 to protest the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) policy banning openly gay…
Jews should get offended
If there’s one thing the Palestinians are great at, it’s saying no. For years now, many peace-loving Jewish heads have been bruised from banging against the brick wall of Palestinian rejectionism.
NSA and JEW
If you ever needed a sign that Jews feel fully integrated and accepted by society, consider this: Not one major Jewish group made a peep over the revelations of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance.
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“Curb” star Jeff Garlin spends two days in jail following parking lot confrontation
Actor Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") was released from a Van Nuys jail yesterday, at approximately 7:30 a.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) website. An incident…
‘Man of Steel’ screenwriter David S. Goyer on Superman and religion
“People are always so quick to point out the Christ allegory in “The Man of Steel” but Superman has always struck me as a combination of Old Testament and New…
Superman is a Jewish Fantasy
This past week my wife surprised me with tickets to the new Superman movie “Man of Steel” for my birthday. So late Saturday night, we sat in a packed movie…
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Archie Comics feature film in the works
Archie comics lovers, rejoice!
Israel’s SodaStream inks deal with KitchenAid
The Israeli company SodaStream agreed to develop a home system for making carbonated drinks for KitchenAid appliances.
Barbra Streisand receives Honorary Doctorate from The Hebrew University
Barbra Streisand, after receiving an honorary doctorate from The Hebrew University, stands in front of the plaque of the Institute of Jewish Studies Building, established in 1984 in honor of…
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Summer Peaches Are Here
I always figured peaches were a super sugary fruit as they are so darn good. But it is not so. Peaches: are often less than 100 calories, making them a…
The Power of Language: Cultivating Positive Emotions
Language affects the heart. When we’re surrounded by others who speak negatively, it can really affect our mood and disposition. Are we aware of how much negative language there is…
Attention Forward: We Aren’t That Radical
It has been said that most of us believe newspaper reporting to be generally accurate, until we read an article on a subject with which we are intimately familiar. It…
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Opposition continues despite new Boy Scout policy
In 2001, Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) overwhelmingly decided to end its sponsorship of Cub Scout Pack 1300 to protest the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) policy banning openly gay scouts and leaders. It ended a nearly 50-year tradition of scouting at the Reform congregation.
This week from Israel - Tel-Aviv’s Gay Pride Parade
Middle East gay pride and LGBT safety exist only in Israel
Tel Aviv just hosted its 15th annual Gay Pride Festival, attended by a record-breaking 100,000 spectators and participants, including some of Israel’s most powerful politicians. Here is The Times of Israel report on the event:
Thousands attend Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade
Tens of thousands of people joined in Tel Aviv’s annual Gay Pride Parade, the first after arrests were made in the 2009 double murder at a gay community center.
Three arrested in 2009 attack on gay club in Tel Aviv
Three suspects were arrested in connection with a 2009 shooting attack at a youth center for gays in Tel Aviv.
Survey finds worldwide split over attitudes toward gays
A survey on Tuesday shows a world divided over the acceptance of gays, with countries in Africa and the Middle East strongly opposed even as tolerance grows in Europe, the United States, Canada and parts of Latin America.
This week from Israel
Jewish scouts say lifting of ban on gays is ‘momentous’
Jewish scouting leaders say they are “overjoyed” after the Boy Scouts of America passed a resolution lifting a ban on gay youth.
Jewish Scouting leaders vocal on gay inclusion
Jewish Scouting leaders are taking a vocal role in efforts to pass a historic resolution that would partially lift a ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of America.
The Stranger Within Your Gates - by Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association elects gay rabbi to lead group
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association has elected an openly gay rabbi to lead the national rabbinic organization.
Joan Rivers helps Israeli gay couple
Congress passes more expansive Violence Against Women Act
Congress approved the more expansive version of an extension of the Violence Against Women Act that an array of Jewish groups had backed.
Homophobic Redemption in Pro Sports
Birthright Israel: Upcoming L.A. LGBT and Ally Trip!
Jewish groups praise Senate on Violence Against Women Act
Three Jewish groups praised the U.S. Senate's reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and urged the House of Representatives to follow suit.
The queerness of love: A Jewish case for same-sex marriage
Last year, I officiated at the first same-sex wedding in the 145-year history of my synagogue. For a Conservative congregation, this was quite a break with tradition.
Hagel’s homophobia
Ashton Rosin: Bearing witness on campus
When author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was recently asked if he feared future generations might forget the Holocaust once the last surviving witnesses had perished, he answered that he had quelled his anxiety over this problem with a simple dictum: “To listen to a witness,” he said, “is to become one.”
Illinois lawmakers begin considering approval of same-sex marriage
Illinois lawmakers began considering a measure on Wednesday that would make President Barack Obama's home state the 10th in the nation to legalize gay marriage.
Jewish groups ready to weigh in as Supreme Court considers same-sex marriage
With public acceptance of same-sex marriage growing, liberal Jewish groups are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down the Defense of Marriage Act that they have long opposed.
Mormon Church launches website on gay issues
LGBT Rights in the Middle East event postponed
A free public panel discussion on “LGBT Rights in the Middle East” that was set to take place on Dec. 5 has been postponed.
A more modern view of homosexuality
The American Modern Orthodox community has just entered uncharted territory. Last week, our largest rabbinic organization, the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) formally withdrew its support of JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality).
Orthodox Rabbi Steven Greenberg talks to Pasadena shul about homosexuality, welcoming the stranger
When Rabbi Steve Greenberg was a young rabbinical student at an Orthodox Yeshiva near Jerusalem in the mid-1970s, he was attracted to a fellow (male) student. He wanted to talk about his feelings of homosexual desire to a respected old rabbi — but was afraid to. So Greenberg fudged by telling the rabbi he was “attracted to both men and women.” The venerated old rabbi shrugged: “So you have twice the power of love. Use it carefully.”
Index measures Jewish communal groups’ LGBT sensitivity
A new survey of Jewish communal organizations found that 50 percent of them have taken significant steps to welcome gays and lesbians and their families.
On the morning after, Jewish Republicans advise the party
Think immigration through -- again. Forget about gay marriage. And for heaven’s sake, when it comes to rape, shut up!
Pro-Sherman mailer labeled 'despicable' may have ties to former Sherman staffer
A pro-Brad Sherman mailer sent out in October to Republican voters in the San Fernando Valley’s new 30th Congressional district features a shadowy and ominous-looking image of Rep. Howard Berman, Sherman’s Democratic opponent for Congress, shown alongside Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
Pro-gay marriage leader apologizes for ‘Nazi’ comments
A religious outreach official for a campaign seeking marriage equality for gays in Minnesota apologized for likening opponents' tactics to those of the Nazis. “It was a terrible mistake to even mention Nazism in an attempt to illustrate my point, and I fully understand why many found it to be offensive,” the Rev. Brad Brandon said in a statement first published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Oct. 24.
Conservative day school cancels Boy Scout troops over exclusion of gay leaders
A Conservative Jewish day school will not renew its Boy Scouts charter because of the organization's policy excluding gay and lesbian adults as leaders.
Faith, not just gayness, informs filmmaker’s works
This has been a good year for filmmaker Ira Sachs. His new feature, "Keep the Lights On," received a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and won the prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. And while the intensely personal, autobiographical film centers on a tumultuous love affair between two men, Sachs believes audiences will relate to the human experience of relationships shared by all couples.
New Reform wedding edition confronts same-sex ceremonies
A new edition of a user-friendly guide to making a modern Jewish wedding has changed its approach to same-sex weddings.
Viva Chick-fil-A!
New Tel Aviv center aiming to reduce anti-gay violence
Israel’s association for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is launching a center in Tel Aviv to combat anti-gay violence.
Episcopal Church approves liturgy for same-sex unions
Israeli Gay Pride
Fred Karger in Utah: Anti-Mormon meets homophobe
LGBT Jews take pride in inclusiveness
Before he told members of his family, Nathan Looney told members of his synagogue, Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), that he was transitioning from female to male. He says the encouragement he received is typical for members of this Pico Boulevard congregation.
Tel Aviv celebrates gay pride
Tel Aviv launched gay pride festivities Friday.
Federal appeals court invalidates DOMA
Can millions of dollars power a new kind of community?
In a not-so-quiet corner of Café Stella at Sunset Junction in Silver Lake, Jill Soloway and Ayana Morse look around and see a model for Jewish connection.
Y-Love, black Jewish rapper, comes out as gay
Jewish groups, Orthodox excepted, laud Obama on gay marriage
Thankful For Obama’s Gay [R]Evolution
Biden: ‘Absolutely comfortable’ with gay marriage
Going to the chapel…or something like that
I’m Coming Out of the Closet!
Out, Proud and Together
Children being raised in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families are likely to face some pretty awkward questions from their peers: How come you have two mommies? How were you born if you have only dads? Who lights the candles at your house? Rabbi Lisa Edwards of Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), the world’s oldest LGBT synagogue, says kids might encounter a whole range of attitudes, including jealousy and bullying, which is why her synagogue, along with Congregation Kol Ami and other local Jewish institutions, has initiated Southern California’s first Jewish LGBT Family Shabbaton.
Seattle panel nixes meeting with Israeli gays over ‘pinkwashing’
A Seattle commission that represents the gay community canceled a meeting with gay Israeli leaders over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
Asking Too Much
Israel Makes Me a Proud Angelena (3-Part Series)
Where were we 10 years ago?
The Methodist rift over gay marriage
Seventh-day Adventists celebrate 9th Circuit ruling on Prop. 8
New Presbyterian denomination launches in response to PCUSA dropping gay clergy ban
Boston doctor finds treating transgender youth a transforming experience
In a family of prominent Jewish educators, Norman Spack could be called the rebel. He became a doctor. “I'm the only one who didn't go into Jewish education,” quips Spack, a senior associate in the endocrine division at Boston's Children's Hospital, where he has worked for 39 years.
Making it easier for LGBT Jewish kids to be open, honest
Someday, maybe every gay Jewish youth will have as easy a time coming out as Elias Rubin did.
Opinion: If you take down Israel, what else goes with it?
I came out into the lesbian-and-gay world in the middle of the last century and witnessed first-hand the persecution and oppression of LGBT people.
July 5-July 15
The 29th annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival features two Israeli entries today. Director Eytan Fox (“Yossi & Jagger”) brings us “Mary Lou,” a musical miniseries that’s been called Israel’s “Glee.” Meir is a young gay man in search of his mother, who abandoned him on his 10th birthday. As he searches for her in Tel Aviv — convinced she became a backup singer for ’70s pop star Svika Pick
Preparing for Same-Gender Weddings
All eyes will still be on New York in the coming weeks as the state prepares for marriage equality. I learned a lot in the run-up to wedding mania here in California in 2008, so I thought I would share some tips with those in New York.
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