Jewish couple Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz, LGBT senior icons, have known each other 56 years, been partners for 42, and married nearly five. As they got older, Ruthie and Connie began to focus their activism on protections for LGBT seniors Wives Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz, perhaps the nation’s best-known senior lesbian couple, will be […]
Gay and Jewish “American Idol” finalist Bret Loewenstern performed at the UM Hillel’s Open Mic Wednesday night American Idol finalist Bret Loewenstern performs at the UM Hillel’s Open Mic Wednesday night. Giancarlo Falconi // Staff Photographer Singers, songwriters and comedians stepped up to the mic at the Braman Miller Center for Jewish Life on Wednesday […]
“The first time I considered going to the mikveh was before my wedding. While this was a completely typical time to think about going to the mikveh, I was marrying a woman, not a man, and I identify as queer.” – Jessica Ozar, a freelance writer from Atlanta, blogs. Jessica on her wedding day (Photo: Twitter) I didn’t […]
Although based in Miami Beach, The Tribe group of young Jewish leaders from their 20s to 40s will be having a complimentary Shabbat dinner in Broward County at Temple Beth Emet in Cooper City on Nov. 20, beginning with services at 7:30 p.m. The monthly Shabbat dinner, organized by The Tribe on the third Friday […]
American Jewish World Service is the fourth largest U.S.-based funder of international LGBT work. Ruth Messinger, its president and CEO, took part in Atlanta’s first public event addressing the Global-Local Connection for LGBT Rights. When the programming board of the LGBT Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights walked out of their […]
A reader of Jewish magazine Heritage recently attended the wedding of two young women in Orlando. A Jewish wedding, officiated by a local rabbi. Twenty-five years ago I was walking with a friend on the lower west side of Manhattan, nearly in the shadows of the World Trade Center towers. He was about my age […]
On Sunday, Temple Israel will host a public discussion, “What Is Spiritual Health?’, featuring journalist Jay Michaelson, who covers spirituality and LGBT issues for The Daily Beast and the Forward newspaper and website. “There are one million new meditators in the U.S.,” says Michaelson, basing his estimate on data from the healthcare industry, schools and […]
There are three things I’d like to tell you about me. I’m gay, I’m Jewish and I’m old. That could have been written, “I’m an old gay Jewish guy”, but I wanted to focus on each of those individual words: Jewish, old, gay. They are all a part of me, make me who I am […]