Right now, spring may seem impossibly far away, but starting on February 21, you can start a whole new season of classes with UnYeshiva, a
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Guest post by Sandy Sahar Gooen. Yentl is a huge deal to Jewish women who believe in feminism and halakhic egalitarianism. First published in 1962
Guest post by Warren Hoffman As COVID-19 begins to recede in the U.S., I, like many single gay men, have found myself on any number
Guest post by Miriam Lakin. My teaching career began around the same time that I “officially” came out. I was eager to discover how children
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The responses to JVP’s disruption of the Celebrate Israel parade demonstrates how Jewish communal support for LGBTQ students is conditional.
[pullquote align=right] While many cities held annual LGBTQ Pride parades, some held “anti-sharia” protests. [/pullquote]Queer AND religious. Two facts of my identity that live in
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While I appreciate the Senate’s gesture and statement, I am also distrustful. Throughout history, the main way anti-Semitism has functioned has been for people in true positions of power to pick off the Jews to use as their scapegoats, fig leaves and shields to protect them from opposition from the main targets of their exploitation and oppression. They want to divide us Jews from other, oppressed, minority communities, making us unsympathetic of their correct claims of abuse by the power structures, until such a point that minority communities direct their rage at the more accessible Jews, rather than at the true, deep sources of their oppression. This has happened for centuries, and it’s happening right now. We Jews have to resist being played as pawns in this way and maintain our solidarity with all oppressed communities, even as we take responsible measures to protect ourselves.