Homosexuality

Page 95 of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' quotes her writing about feeling 'ecstasy' every time she sees a female nudes painting. (Anne Frank Fonds/Calman Levy)

Brazilian parents protest teaching of new Anne Frank diary containing sexual descriptions

The teenage chronicler’s father left out the controversial passages from the 1947 edit that he made of the diary she wrote while hiding from the Nazis.

Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli education minister walks back support for conversion ‘therapy’ for gays

Rafi Peretz had apologized earlier for saying that intermarriage was “like a second Holocaust.”

Dutch supermarket dismisses anti-Semitism claim as misunderstanding

Video footage shows an employee laughing as a man wearing aJewish skullcap walks by.

Culture

Saying Bert and Ernie were gay, a writer for ‘Sesame Street’ reopens a furry-ous debate

United States

Turkish Jewish leader denies snubbing gay Israeli envoy

Global

Colleagues review top British Sephardi rabbi’s comments on gay marriage, say he can keep post

Global

British rabbis want top Sephardi peer fired for praising acceptance of homosexuality

Culture

In France, a Jewish TV celebrity is called out for gay bashing

Israel

Activists protest Jerusalem chief rabbi over homosexuality remarks

Israel

Israeli basketball star comes out in bold Independence Day post

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