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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

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A pedestrian on the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City on August 30, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
May 10, 2025, 10:37 am
Yeshiva University rescinds approval of LGBTQ+ student group
Orthodox university’s rabbis say ‘Hareni’ violated settlement agreement that allowed for its formation; students refuse to include ‘sexual morality’ disclaimer on club’s ads
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Shabbat services at the 2025 Keshet Shabbaton for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color (Courtesy/Keshet)
March 13, 2025, 1:01 am
Isolated and excluded: New survey highlights challenges of global LGBTQ+ Jews of Color
Survey of 90 Jews in 20 states and four international locations conducted by US nonprofit Keshet finds most communities have a lot of work to do to make gay Jews of Color feel included
By Zev Stub
Daniel Gammerman gathers prayer items that he will use to privately worship at home during the Jewish High Holy Days, Thursday, September 26, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
October 2, 2024, 10:54 pm
Feeling out of place at synagogue, Orthodox LGBTQ Jews make their own spaces
Eshel, a US-based organization focused on LGBTQ Orthodox communities, finds that after coming out, people often wonder if they still belong in the spaces they were raised in
By María Teresa Hernández
The late Sagi Golan who was killed in Be'eri on October 7, 2023. (Facebook screenshot)
October 23, 2023, 3:26 pm
Maj. Sagi Golan, 30: Killed 13 days before wedding to his boyfriend
Killed fighting Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: a man takes a photo of a multicoloured cake in a window display of a cake shop. (AP Photo/Paul White)
July 8, 2023, 5:06 pm
NJ Jews reel after kosher baker rejects synagogue’s order for rainbow Pride treats
When the West Orange Bake Shop wouldn’t supply cupcakes supporting the LGBTQ community, a firestorm ensued – which the Orthodox owner says is fueling more divisiveness
By Andrew Lapin
A woman at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022, holds up a sign with the biblical phrase 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2023, 9:01 am
Gay and Orthodox: Book charts the rise of a once unthinkable dual identity in Israel
‘Queer Judaism,’ a new work from academic Orit Avishai, explores the rapid transformation over just two decades of the visibility and activism of LGBTQ religious Jews
By Amy Spiro
Ari Shapiro behind the microphone as host of NPR's 'All Things Considered.' (Stephen Voss/NPR)
March 21, 2023, 10:15 pm
NPR’s Ari Shapiro reports on lessons learned behind the microphone – and in print
New memoir gives the inside scoop behind the familiar voice from ‘All Things Considered’ news program, the people he’s met during his career and his passion for performing
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Educator and father Dr. Mark Shinar (courtesy)
June 17, 2022, 1:21 pm
Podcast: At 45, this Orthodox principal and father of four came out of the closet
Hear what happened next for Dr. Mark Shinar and his family in an open conversation marking Gay Pride Month
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Camille Angel at University of San Francisco Lone Mountain Campus. (Lea Loeb/JTA)
March 5, 2022, 3:07 pm
Rabbi is ‘queering’ religion at the Jesuit Catholic University of San Francisco
Being a lesbian Jewish teacher at a Christian institution allows Rabbi Camille Angel to perform a rainbow of outreach services
By Lea Loeb
Fabien Azoulay, a French Jewish gay man serving a prison sentence in Turkey for drug offenses. (Courtesy of the Azoulay family via JTA)
April 14, 2021, 8:26 am
French Jewish gay man harassed in Turkish prison, family says
Fabien Azoulay, who is serving 16 years for buying drugs online, threatened with violence; 92,000 sign petition calling for Macron to intervene
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Alex Morse is challenging longtime incumbent Rich Neal in Massachusetts' 1st District. (Courtesy of Alex Morse for Congress/ via JTA)
July 25, 2020, 3:55 am
Elected mayor at 22, gay-Jewish-progressive Alex Morse is running for Congress
The now-31-year-old politician seeks to replace the more moderate — and experienced — Democratic incumbent Richard Neal in primary elections September 1
By Josefin Dolsten
Benjamin Dreyer at Hatchards, London’s oldest bookshop, promoting the UK version of his book, 'Dreyer’s English.' (Isabelle Ralphs/ Cornerstone Publishing/ Penguin Random House UK)
July 26, 2019, 9:04 pm
From US to UK, veteran editor Benjamin Dreyer has the last word on English style
The Random House copy chief and self-described ‘nice Jewish boy’ isn’t shy when it comes to proper use of grammar and punctuation — as his new, and humorous, book can attest
By Jenni Frazer
Screen capture from video of Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar, right, during a seminar in Ashdod,July 19, 2019. (Kan public broadcaster)
July 23, 2019, 1:32 pm
Jerusalem chief rabbi: Gay people cannot be religious, shouldn’t pretend to be
LGBT community fumes after Shlomo Amar tells seminar that homosexuality is a ‘wild lust’ that can be overcome with simple fear of God
By Stuart Winer
A lesbian couple hold hands during the Tel Aviv Gay Pride parade on June 3, 2016 (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA, File)
July 18, 2019, 4:52 pm
In the US, gay conversion therapy continues in some Orthodox communities
Although many jurisdictions have banned the controversial ‘cure,’ some Jewish practitioners of the discredited ‘science’ are still operating clandestinely
By Matt Lebovic
An Israeli man wears a rainbow kippa during the annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on July 21, 2016. (Thomas COex/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
June 14, 2019, 12:49 pm
New Jersey-based Jewish gay conversion group ordered to shut down
Despite agreeing to stop its discredited counseling, JONAH has been operating under new name
By JTA
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