LGBT

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

The donation from the owner of the Al Arz tahini company was directed to help set up a hotline for Arabic-speaking LGBT Israelis.

By Marcy Oster July 17, 2020 8:12 am

Tel Aviv to recognize same-sex and interfaith couples

The recognition on the municipal level has no impact on recognition or lack of it on the national level, but couples will get benefits in Tel Aviv, such as tax breaks.

June 21, 2020 2:41 pm

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

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

Peretz said none of his children would become gay because they grew up in a “natural and healthy way.”

January 13, 2020 10:36 am

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)

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

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 27, 2019 12:20 pm

Opinion

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

By Hen Mazzig June 28, 2019 2:14 pm

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

By Laura E. Adkins June 28, 2019 1:01 pm

Yuval Noah Harari worries that LGBT acceptance will lead to backlash

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 28, 2019 10:10 am

Opinion

We Orthodox Jews desperately need gay rabbis

By Rabbi Daniel Landes May 27, 2019 12:55 pm

Opinion

I’m an Orthodox rabbi who is going to start officiating LGBTQ weddings. Here’s why.

By Rabbi Avram Mlotek April 5, 2019 4:02 pm

Opinion

Purim is the queerist holiday. Why haven’t we internalized its lessons?

By Ariel Sobel March 12, 2019 11:57 am

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

Tel Aviv to recognize same-sex and interfaith couples

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

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

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

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

Yuval Noah Harari worries that LGBT acceptance will lead to backlash

We Orthodox Jews desperately need gay rabbis

I’m an Orthodox rabbi who is going to start officiating LGBTQ weddings. Here’s why.

Purim is the queerist holiday. Why haven’t we internalized its lessons?

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