A new networking group that seeks to connect LGBT people who work at foreign embassies in D.C. will officially launch on Wednesday during an event at Number Nine in Logan Circle. Zafrir Nesher-Kazaz, who works for the Israeli Embassy, told the Washington Blade last week that he came up with the idea behind Gays and […]
Eloquent Support by Lay Leaders Shows Momentous Change In 1977, Gerson D. Cohen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, approved a petition by the Rabbinical Assembly to create a committee to study the role of women as spiritual leaders in the Conservative movement. The voices included were varied, some in favor of the […]
Congregants of Cleveland Park’s Adas Israel Congregation, the largest Conservative synagogue in D.C., received a surprising email Monday afternoon: Their senior rabbi, Gil Steinlauf, announced he is gay. A few days ago, I posted a piece about my rabbi, Gil Steinlauf, the senior rabbi of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., the largest Conservative movement-affiliated […]
Winston & Strawn associate Alex Kaplan was named by The LGBT Bar as one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40. All awardees will be recognized at the Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair on August 23, 2014, in New York City. Each year, the LGBT Bar recognizes 40 LGBT legal professionals (practicing lawyers, law […]
Over the past two weeks, A Wider Bridge’s Executive Director Arthur Slepian had the opportunity to attend both the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, DC, and a J Street Town Hall meeting in San Francisco. Both events were interesting, provocative, and provided an important perspective on the relationship of the […]
Lanny Davis, principal in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Lanny J. Davis & Associates, criticizes the extremist religious Jewish members at Temple Sinai, Los Angeles, who oppose their rabbi to conduct same-sex weddings “To officiate a union that is expressly not for the same godly purpose of procreation and to call such a relationship ‘sanctified’ […]