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Category Archives: Homosexuality
Is She The First Hot Female Rabbi?
And as Heshy Fried points out below, she plays for the other team! From FrumSatire: “I wanted to lead a halachically observant community so decided it was best to transfer to JTS where it would be far more likely I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Judaism, Homosexuality, JTS
Tagged female rabbit, frumsatire, gay clergy, Google, google images, personal practice
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Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community
Book review from the South Florida Gay News: A mechitza is a barrier that separates men from women in Orthodox Jewish synagogues and at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Transgender Jews, especially the observant ones, “balance on the mechitza” that … Continue reading
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Tagged classical jewish texts, transgender jews, transgender lives, transgender men, transgender women, western wall in jerusalem
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The Hollywood Gay Mafia
The back issues of the influential magazine are now online. You can read Mark Ebner’s 1995 piece on the Hollywood Gay Mafia on page 44. Here’s more.
Posted in Hollywood, Homosexuality
Tagged back issues, gay mafia, Hollywood, Mark Ebner, page 44
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A distressing decision about the military
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, I’m a VietNam veteran (once in a neglectful moment, you referred to me as a World War II veteran, which would have made me about 80 or 90 instead of only 15 or 20 years … Continue reading
Posted in Homosexuality, Orthodoxy
Tagged gay americans, homosexual members, military effectiveness, social cohesion, vietnam veteran, world war ii
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Gays To Serve Openly In The U.S. Military
When I logged on to the internet Saturday night, I saw that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” had been repealed by the U.S. Senate. There was all sorts of weepy coverage about it in the New York Times: By a vote … Continue reading
Posted in Homosexuality, Immigration
Tagged class citizens, clinton era, foxhole, immigrant students, immigration policy, Philip Roth, sexual preferences, talking to strangers
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