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Barney Frank, the irascible Jewish progressive congressman who wrote landmark finance bill,
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1555+ words) By Ron Kampeas May 20, 2026 (JTA) — Barney Frank, the irascible longtime progressive who strove for equal rights for LGBTQ Americans and coauthored the last major finance reform bill, has died at 86. The former Massachusetts congressman died in hospice...husband, Jim Ready,…...
‘Conversion therapy is having a moment’ — what will that mean for LGBTQ+ Jews?
11+ mon, 2+ day ago (1007+ words) Nora Berman October 10, 2025 Chaim Levin, one of the plaintiffs who sued JONAH, is now a first-year law...was raised in a Chabad household in Brooklyn, over the phone about Chiles v. Salazar, and how the Orthodox community currently navigates homosexuality....anymore....
For many queer Jews, Pride has lost its joy
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (649+ words) before wearing a Star of David necklace to Pride for the first time in years. At first, I told myself I was imagining it. Then I began hearing the same thing in private conversations: people calculating...loud. Wondering whether expressing…...
Jewish communities can help save trans lives — here's how
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (603+ words) Reconstructionist and Renewal — from 48 U.S. states and the District of Columbia recently signed an open letter...declaring that Jewish tradition compels us to support the full equality of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people. We rely on our readers to support…...
As anti-LGBTQ laws spread, these two Jewish nonprofits are funding moves to safer states
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (1003+ words) (JTA) — As anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferated across the United States in late 2024, leaders at two Jewish nonprofits began discussing the mounting crisis for LGBTQ Americans who no longer felt safe in their home states but lacked the financial means to leave....
Did crypto-Jews invent the modern tarot deck?
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (980+ words) By Nora Berman November 7, 2025 Enter tarot — the deck of playing cards used in fortune-telling and divination — and specifically, the Jean Noblet Tarot de Marseille deck. Each tarot card represents a specific archetype that the “reader” of the deck uses to…...
This Jewish activist was arrested and deported for her book ‘Lesbian Love.’ 100 years later, will NYC apologize?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (982+ words) immigrant who ran a lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, for the crime of being gay. The formal charges were more euphemistic. Officially,...entrapped her, and obscenity, for writing and possessing the book Lesbian Love. The following year, the U.S. government deported…...
Rome’s Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (787+ words) Marchers take part in the Roma Pride parade in Rome, June 11, 2022. (Camelia Boban/Wikimedia...although they are still allowed to participate in the march itself. Keshet Italia, which has no affiliation with the Israeli government or the State of Israel,…...