Sean Yazbeck, winner of NBC’S The Apprentice and President/CEO Wavsys-An INC 500 ‘Fastest Growing Company in America,’ criticizes businessmen who don’t support marriage equality and explains why equality will be “good for business” With politicians shifting positions daily, the gay marriage debate is over. It’s been the most significant civil rights discussion since the feminist, […]
Amichai Lau-Lavie rewrote his Bar Mitzvah speech 30 years later, because he felt like something’s missing: The need to say that he’s no abomination. I grew up Orthodox in Israel. By the time of my bar mitzvah—in April 1982—I was living in New York City, a sweet kid in a polyester suit. A little on the […]
Tablet’s managing editor Wayne Hoffman went on a pre-opening tour of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and it turns out that the Holocaust destroyed Plock’s Jewish community, but the exodus started decades earlier, after World War I. On a special pre-opening tour of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews yesterday, I found […]
The New York Jewish Week has published on Israel’s 65th Independence Day a special opinion column by founder and Executive Director of A Wider Bridge, Arthur Slepian, about the country’s achievements in regards to LGBT rights, as it looks in 2013. Today, Israel’s 65th Independence Day, it is appropriate that we stop and take pride in […]
1. Tell people you realized you were gay when [obscure 90s reference] happened. 2. Stop rooting for the gay kings in Game of Thrones, it’s not gonna happen. 3. Get over True Blood it’ll never be good again I’m sorry but it’s true. 4. But vampires are still sexy and it’s OK! 5. It’s also […]
JOINT STATEMENT BY NYC COUNCIL SPEAKER CHRISTINE C. QUINN, NYS ASSEMBLY MEMBER DEBORAH GLICK, NYS SENATOR BRAD HOYLMAN, AND NYC COUNCIL MEMBER JIMMY VAN BRAMER Re: New LGBT Community Center Space Use Guidelines “We support the new Space Use guidelines, terms and conditions being implemented by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center. Their […]
Jayson Littman, founder of He’bro, reflects on his first trip to Israel as a gay Jew, and how it influenced him to organize group trips for gay Jews, with no connection to politics whatsoever. Growing up as a black-hat Orthodox Jew, I never celebrated Israel in a Zionistic fashion. Zionism was a secular concept, sort […]
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum celebrated her 20th anniversary at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the country’s largest LGBT synagogue with 1,100 members Kleinbaum of New York City’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah had been in rabbinical school for less than a year when she attended a secret conference of gay and lesbian rabbinical and cantorial students and rabbis […]
UPPER EAST SIDE — Blue and white flags of Israel waved in the air alongside the rainbow flags that symbolize gay pride for the first time in the history of the Celebrate Israel Parade Sunday. A crowd that was estimated to be 35,000 turned out for, and marched along, Fifth Avenue starting at East 57th […]
The New York Times recently dedicated precious space to the follies of Israel’s public relations. I’m not talking about Sarah Schulman’s “Israel and Pinkwashing,” which alleges that the Israeli government effectively leverages the gains of the LGBT community to have its way with the Palestinians, but rather a Times story about a clumsy Israeli government-sponsored […]