On Wednesday May 10th, 2017, the religious LGBTQ community of Israel will be hosting the 9th annual Pesach Sheni – Religious Tolerance Day event at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Pesach Sheni – Religious Tolerance Day 2017 – “Torah, chuppah, and a life of good deeds…” – also for LGBTQ? Pesach Sheni falls on […]
Date of the 2017 Jerusalem Pride March was announced: August 3rd. In a creative video on social media, youth group of Jerusalem Open House announced the date of the Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance. The video also calls members of the community in Jerusalem to take part in the gathering of the Pride March […]
About 50 yeshiva and ulpana principals from the State-Religious school system in Israel attend a conference that deals with issues related to the gay community. Pinkas-Arad opned the event (Photo: Reuven Kopitchinski) The State-Religious education division in the Education Ministry held a first of its kind seminar on Wednesday for principals of yeshivas and ulpanot […]
Gay Orthodox activist Uria Ben Brit had a fruitful shift Thursday night at The Meeting Place in Jerusalem, as he walked with a rainbow flag, wearing a yarmulke, down Zion Square. “When you’re wearing a yarmulke and carrying a rainbow flag on the street of the most central square in Jerusalem, you better expect comments,” […]
Through mourning the loss of 16-year old Shira Banki z”l, fatally attacked at the 2015 Jerusalem Pride March, the city’s LGBTQ community emerged as a thread to bring together a city divided at the seams. LGBTQ leaders took to Zion Square, the central plaza in the heart of Jerusalem, to hold open forums for unprecedented […]
Jerusalem is so much more than a travel destination, it’s a pilgrimage for the mind, soul, senses, and stomach! Jillian, the creator and author of Food, Folks, and Fun shared her top 10 things you must eat in Jerusalem! Baklava. Oh, the baklava! My favorite Baklava in Jerusalem is from Shawar Bakery & Patisserie. The […]
Longtime Jerusalem activist Eran Globus was selected Thursday as chair of the board of the Jerusalem Open House. Globus, nearly 21, is the youngest chair in the history of LGBT organizations in Israel. Jerusalem Open House’s new board members (from left, clockwise): Tamar Ben David, Elisga Golani, Roei Shaul Hillel, Eran Globus, Or Rubinstein, Nitsan […]
Israeli Supreme Court gives women new hope at Western Wall: In an interim ruling Jan. 11, Israel’s Supreme Court sided in favor of women being allowed to read from a Torah scroll in the women’s section at the Western Wall and declared that women should not be subjected to body searches before entering the plaza. […]
The performers of Allah Nesh have found an unlikely home and a way to assert themselves in Israel’s conservative capital city Yosale is putting on electric blue eyeliner in his family’s Jerusalem home. Noir Styrofoam is donning a black wig, the same color as his beard, while Moksha powders his face. They are preparing for […]
Israeli political and community leaders have called for a top Jerusalem rabbi to be fired after he said Jewish law prescribed the death penalty for gays. Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar told Israel Hayom newspaper homosexuality was a “cult of abomination”, which the Torah “punishes… with death”. Several members of parliament have written to the […]