LGBTQ activists from Haifa will share their reflections on their movement’s progress and talk about their new Communities’ House for Pride and Tolerance this weekend in Boston. The tagline for A Wider Bridge (AWB) conveys its mission concisely: Equality in Israel, Equality for Israel. That goal is being successfully realized through AWB’s Impact Delegations. Each year AWB […]
Talleen Abu Hanna, Miss Trans Israel 2016 is currently on a speaking tour across the United States. The beauty queen, who embarked on a successful modeling career, landed in Boston on Sunday, and is scheduled to stay in America for 10 days. Abu Hanna spoke yesterday at NEU Hillel and later at Fenway Health. Today […]
Four panelists shared their hard-won insights about the future of gender. Milton Diamond, a renowned professor and researcher on anatomy and human sexuality, once said, “Nature loves diversity; society hates it.” Diamond’s observation deepened an already thought-provoking panel on “The Future of Gender” that took place last week at the Jewish Community Centers of Greater […]
A panel discussion on the issues facing transgender individuals moderated by Idit Klein, executive director of Keshet will be held Monday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Boston. The panel will seek to explain just what gender means and how we relate to it within the context of today’s cultural […]
Author Meryl G. Gordon recently spoke about her Keshet award-winning book ‘The Flower Girl Wore Celery’ in Boston Last Sunday, at an event at Boston’s Temple Israel, author Meryl G. Gordon spoke about her new book, The Flower Girl Wore Celery, a children’s story about a flower girl who strews her petals down the aisle […]
“There is a place in Judaism for everyone, including transgender people, it just might not be the sect your were assigned at birth,” transgender activist Hannah Simpson says in a new interview. It was Yom Kippur 2013, a sunny Saturday in Boston. That afternoon, then 29-year old Hannah Simpson was preparing to give a d’var […]
Tufts university clerics try to put Palestinian supporters and Friends of Israel in the same room for a discussion. Who shows up? Itamar Ben-Aharon, president of the campus group Friends of Israel, is decorated during a get-together called Celebrate Israel. Photo: Katherine Taylor for The New York Times What some see as a celebration of […]
Christopher Muther from the Boston Globe had a stereotype-shattering trip to Tel Aviv and came back with a confirmation: Tel Aviv is super gay. I read the lists and saw the surveys proclaiming Tel Aviv to be the most gay-friendly place this side of the Emerald City. I’m paraphrasing here, but travel guides usually characterize […]
Al Baum, founder of the LGBT Alliance at the Jewish Community Federation, and Rabbi Tsipi Gabai, head of Judaic studies at Tehiyah Day School in El Cerrito, two Bay Area champions of human rights were honored at a gala last week by Keshet. Some 150 people attended the winter gala, Glimmer, at the Oasis cabaret […]
Two-hundred Jews gathered in Boston’s Temple Israel on Wednesday evening to lament a summer of Jewish extremist violence in Israel. During the hour-long memorial and solidarity gathering, a dozen community leaders spoke about the Jewish terror attacks that rocked Israel and the Diaspora six weeks ago: the stabbing death of Jerusalem teenager Shira Banki during […]