LGBTQ
Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2024, 9:28 am
Historic global LGBTQ advocacy group boycotts Israel
The ILGA kicked out The Aguda after the Israeli group nominated Tel Aviv as a conference location.
By Andrew Lapin
Gay Pride Flag with David's Star by Jonatan Svensson Glad (Josve05a) courtesy of flickr.com
June 20, 2024, 12:02 pm
Anti-Israel hostility is making deeply needed Pride events less safe
Would a young Jew seeking to connect to their LGBTQ+ identity for the first time have their Pride taken away? 
By Ethan Felson and Nate Looney
Laurie MacDonald (Photo by Maureen Kelly Busis)
February 6, 2024, 9:11 am
Center for Victims sued for discrimination
District 12 candidate is mentioned in the lawsuit, but is not a defendant
By David Rullo
Gay Pride Flag with David's Star by Jonatan Svensson Glad (Josve05a) courtesy of flickr.com
January 10, 2024, 1:24 pm
Israeli LGBTQ soldiers hope the war will bolster their fight for equal rights at home
Israel has passed a bill granting recognition to same-sex partners of fallen soldiers.
By Eliyahu Freedman
Rice University. (Photo by channing.wu, courtesy of flickr.com)
October 4, 2023, 9:49 am
A campus LGBTQ+ group at Rice broke ties with its Hillel over Israel.
Where are queer Jewish students supposed to go?
By Hen Mazzig
2016.08.27 17th Street Festival Washington, DC USA 07651. Photo by Ted Eytan, courtesy of flickr.com.
September 5, 2023, 1:55 pm
Tzelem comes to Pittsburgh
New group hopes to engage Pittsburgh Jewish nonbinary, trans, gender expansive and LGBTQ+ teens
By David Rullo
Gay Pride Flag with David's Star by Jonatan Svensson Glad (Josve05a) courtesy of flickr.com
June 30, 2023, 11:22 am
Celebrating 35 years of pride and community at Congregation Bet Tikvah
While Bet Tikvah members celebrate each step toward acceptance, we also know it means that there is less of a need for a community to embrace those who have no other place.
By Sara Chandler and Caedyn Krahling
The Prospect Heights Shul, a modern orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn, NY. (PHS Synagogue / Forward Montage)
June 7, 2023, 8:12 am
Why I, as an Orthodox rabbi, am committed to LGBTQ+ inclusion
It’s a religious imperative for my fellow Orthodox Jews to fully embrace LGBTQ+ people
By Rabbi Jonathan Leener
(Image by Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke)
June 18, 2022, 10:00 pm
How Pittsburgh’s congregations are working to include nonbinary Jews
“You are who you are. Who you are is the way God made you. How can we reject that?” — Rabbi Yaier Lehrer
By Ethan Beck
A poster advertises an LGBTQ event at Yeshiva University, Dec. 15, 2020. (Courtesy of Y.U. student organizers)
June 15, 2022, 1:15 pm
Judge orders Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ organization
YU must provide “full equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges afforded to all other student groups at Yeshiva University."
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Campers and staff gather around the bonfire at Camp Manitowa, the host site of Camp Indigo Point. (Courtesy Dan Grabel)
May 5, 2022, 10:46 am
Jewish summer camp veterans are opening a camp for trans kids
Despite it not actually being a Jewish camp, the staff and incoming campers at Indigo Point are largely Jewish and steeped in Jewish camp experience.
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Photo by Ted Eytan, courtesy of flickr.com
July 7, 2021, 10:22 am
My faith celebrates LGBTQ people
Our nation should at least respect them
By Rabbi Keren Gorban
Photo by Ted Eytan, courtesy of flickr.com.
June 23, 2021, 10:15 am
Pride, and the Pittsburgh Platform
These are the people who made it possible for me (a convert) to not only be a practicing Jew, but for my family to exist as it does
By Matthew Falcone
Photo by Jonatan Svensoon Glad, courtesy of Flickr.coom
June 9, 2021, 12:35 pm
Which comes first, gay or Jewish?
I am both a Jewish gay guy AND I’m a gay Jew.
By Jeff Freedman
Jeff Freedman. Photo courtesy of Jeff Freedman
March 5, 2021, 12:46 pm
Jewish Pittsburgher creates virtual ‘one-stop shop’ for LGBTQ community
Jeff Freedman and QBurgh hope to 'be there for people'
By Adam Reinherz
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