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Illustrative: A Yeshiva University building in New York City, January 13, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 28, 2023, 9:27 pm
NYC official: Yeshiva University public funds at risk due to LGBTQ policy
Funding for flagship Modern Orthodox university is increasingly under scrutiny as it argues it is legally a religious institution to avoid recognizing student Pride group
By Luke Tress
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana delivers a speech at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
February 22, 2023, 10:55 pm
Knesset shoots down opposition bill to enable adoption for same sex couples
Openly gay Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana bucks coalition position, votes for legislation sponsored by MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano, who slams government as most LGBTQ-phobic ever
By ToI Staff
LGBTQ activists in Lebanon shout slogans as they march calling on the government for more rights in the country gripped by economic and financial crisis during ongoing protests in Beirut, Lebanon on June 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
February 22, 2023, 12:56 am
Mideast governments targeting LGBTQ people online, rights group says
Report documents dozens of cases of security agencies in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia extorting members of LGBTQ community based on their social media activities
By Kareem Chehayeb
Noam party leader Avi Maoz at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 10, 2023, 9:08 pm
Far-right deputy minister’s bill would bar teaching sex orientation before 9th grade
Avi Maoz’s legislation would then only allow lessons on sexual and gender identity if principal signs off, 75% of parents consent and all students do too
By ToI Staff
Jewish leaders from across Missouri came to Jefferson City to testify and lobby against various bills that would restrict the rights of trans people. (Courtesy of Daniel Bogard via JTA)
February 10, 2023, 2:09 am
Missouri Jewish leaders advocate for trans rights at state legislature
Activists protest laws that would limit options for transgender children and censor discussion in schools, citing biblical adage that all humans are created in God’s image
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Dr. Charles Silverstein, therapist and LGBTQ rights activist, died on January 30 at the age of 87. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)
February 7, 2023, 7:47 pm
Charles Silverstein, who helped delist homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87
The Jewish American therapist, author and activist was best known for role in securing the landmark DSM reclassification in 1973 and for his canonical book ‘The Joy of Gay Sex’
By Yaakov Schwartz
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