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 […]
Israeli LGBT weddings website initiates a first of its kind LGBT-wedding fair in Tel Aviv Photo by Galit Sabag For the first time in Israel, website “Ga’ava B’Chupah” (‘Pride at the Chuppah’) will host a gay marriage fair, where couples will be able to hear about the various possibilities of institutionalizing the relationship, receiving recommendations […]
Sarah Weil, Jerusalem based LGBT activist, social entrepreneur, writer and a religious Jew recently represented Israel at a conference in Berlin, Germany called “Too Queer to Believe” on the intersection of LGBTI and Religion. The speech from that conference has been published on the Huffington Post. Sarah Weil in a march for a better future […]
Issues of gender, disability and sexuality on campus took center stage at the conference run by the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), with sessions run by expert speakers. A slide from the new Liberation Conference (photo: UJS-UK Instagram) A new Liberation Conference for Jewish students was heralded as “a big step in the right direction” […]