LGBT

Elana Dykewomon, influential author whose characters were Jewish lesbians like her, dies at 72

“Beyond the Pale,” Dykewomon’s award-winning 1997 novel, told the story of Russian Jewish emigres to the Lower East Side.

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A woman blowing a shofar along a bay

The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews in a changing ritual

With group mikvah gatherings over Zoom, the project is testing the waters for what the practice can be.

András Heisler

Hungarian Jews protest ‘gay propaganda law’

No one should be “discriminated against and certainly not outlawed” because of their orientation, the country’s largest Jewish group said.

Israel

Arab Israeli tahini company that donated money to LGBT rights group faces boycott

Israel

Tel Aviv to recognize same-sex and interfaith couples

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

Israel

Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz under fire for suggesting homosexuality is unnatural

Jerry Herman at the Kennedy Center Honors at the United States Department of State in in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2010. (Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)

Obituaries

Jerry Herman, composer of ‘Hello Dolly!’ and other Broadway hits, dies at 88

Ideas

LGBTQ Israelis are still fighting for equal rights. Anti-Israel activists are trying to erase us.

Culture

This 20 year-old Israeli combat soldier is also a drag queen

Global

Yuval Noah Harari worries that LGBT acceptance will lead to backlash

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