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Gender-Neutral Bathrooms: A Jewish Issue?

For many transgender people—those who identify with a gender that is different from the one they were assigned at birth—going into a public restroom is a daily ordeal. While Massachusetts lawmakers debate a bill on transgender public accommodations, many Jewish organizations are ahead of the curve on fighting discrimination of…

From Tel Aviv to Boston, LGBTQ Jews show their pride

BOSTON – At home and abroad, LGBTQ Jews showed up to en mass to celebrate their community and cheer on those around them over the weekend. In Tel Aviv, 200,000 people, including 30,000 tourists, attended the 19th annual pride parade on June 9, making it the largest ever LGBTQ event…

Father’s Day Pride

Last June, I celebrated Father’s Day in Miami with my two boys, ages 8 and 17, as we heard the news that a Jewish lesbian named Edie had triumphed against the Defense of Marriage Act. Although I grew up in the Boston area, I had lived in Miami for…

Faces Of The Day

Led by Mayor Michael Hancock, Anna and Fran Simon are the first couple to take part in a civil union ceremony at the Webb Building in Denver, Colorado. The Clerk and Recorder’s Office opened for business from midnight to 3 a.m. to issue civil union licenses to couples on May…

Building a Jewish LGBT Movement

Three national Jewish LGBT groups came together to organize the “2010 LGBT Jewish Movement-Building Convening” in the hopes of fostering an organized Jewish LGBT movement. The meeting, held in Berkeley, California on June 27-29, took huge steps toward making that goal a reality. GLAAD Religion, Faith and Values staff was…

Building True Acceptance: By helping gay kids, synagogues and Jewish schools can make the community better for all of us

Jeanne Schwartz called her husband John at work one afternoon in June 2009. “Joe has taken a lot of pills,” she said. Their 13-year- old son Joe, who’d just come out as gay at his middle school, had tried to commit suicide. In Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle To Help…

‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ Gets a New Look For Mother’s Day

Lslea Newman’s iconic picture book “Heather Has Two Mommies” had a simple beginning. A woman approached Newman on the street in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she lived at the time, and said her family needed a book to which her daughter could relate. Meaning that she wanted to read a book…

Embracing Diversity as a Unifying Element of the Jewish Future

[eJP note: This piece is part of a three-part series prepared by the grant recipients of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation’s Second Stage Fund. The pieces seek to detail the factors that have contributed to the individual organizations’ plans for long-term sustainability.] “Oh, are there many of you?” In my first…

A Different Kind Of Wedding

When Mindy Dickler’s son, Elie, revealed to her two-and-a-half years ago that he was gay, she felt totally alone. Today, Dickler and others in the Baltimore community are working to make sure that parents and families of LGBT Jews never feel alone again. “In some ways, it’s very individual,” Dickler said…

Gay Jews Connect Their Experience To Story of Purim

As a child, Idit Klein celebrated Purim by wearing homemade gowns and tiaras to play the beautiful Queen Esther. She fantasized about how she, like the heroine who bravely confessed her faith to save her fellow Jews in ancient Persia, could have somehow rescued her relatives from the Holocaust. Thirty…

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