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This Jewish activist was arrested and deported for her book "Lesbian Love." 100 years later, will NYC apologize?
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (982+ words) Eve Adams in Paris. Courtesy of Chicago Review Press By Hannah Feuer June 16, 2026 In 1926, New York City police arrested Eve Adams, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who ran a lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, for the crime of being gay. The formal…...
For many queer Jews, Pride has lost its joy
2+ week, 1+ day ago (649+ words) I noticed something during last year's Pride that I could not stop thinking about afterward: silence. A few quietly disappeared from communities they had helped build. Invitations were declined. Group chats went unanswered. One friend told me they hesitated before…...
Rome's Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war "genocide'
3+ week, 5+ day ago (787+ words) Marchers take part in the Roma Pride parade in Rome, June 11, 2022. (Camelia Boban/Wikimedia Commons) By Simone Somekh May 28, 2026 (JTA) " Organizers of Rome's annual Pride parade have barred Italy's only Jewish LGBTQIA+ organization from marching with a float at this…...
Barney Frank, the irascible Jewish progressive congressman who wrote landmark finance bill, dies at 86
1+ mon, 3+ day 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 care at home…...
As anti-LGBTQ laws spread, these two Jewish nonprofits are funding moves to safer states
1+ mon, 1+ week 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....
Jewish communities can help save trans lives " here's how
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (603+ words) By Eliana Kayelle and Jonah Dov Pesner March 31, 2026 That's why more than 1, 000 rabbis, cantors, and other spiritual leaders representing all major Jewish denominations " Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and Renewal " from 48 U. S. states and the District of Columbia recently signed an open…...
Did crypto-Jews invent the modern tarot deck?
7+ mon, 2+ week 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…...
Conversion therapy is having a moment" " what will that mean for LGBTQ+ Jews?
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (1007+ words) Deputy Opinion Editor Nora Berman October 10, 2025 Chaim Levin, one of the plaintiffs who sued JONAH, is now a first-year law student at Drexel University and has been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ Jews. I spoke with Levin, who was raised…...
In a first, Orthodox rabbinical school ordains an out gay rabbi
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1453+ words) Yeshivat Chovevei Torah ordained Rabbi Tadhg Cleary in June. "The pressure comes from knowing that I have these abilities and I can be effective, and whether or not I do it is up to me," he said. Courtesy of Tadhg…...
Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (275+ words) Ci at her new workplace, Congregation B'nai Israel in Northampton Mass. Courtesy of Ci By Anya Kamenetz July 9, 2025 "We lived in an area that was beautiful to look at," she told me, "but underneath was holding a lot of hatred…...