They came out by the thousands across Israel to show their support for LGBTQ rights — but the numbers were a far cry from the Pride parades held annually that were canceled due to the coronavirus. Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, as well Beersheba and smaller cities, hosted Pride rallies. The demonstrations, organized by the…
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Books
A treasure trove of LGBTQ texts from two millennia of Jewish history
A year before Noam Sienna, 30, earned his Ph.D. in Jewish history at the University of Minnesota last month, he had already published a groundbreaking…
Local Voice
Don’t let Pride’s 50th anniversary pass by. Lots of Jewish resources are available.
Pride Month invites those of us who stand at the intersections of histories to lift up the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and…
TV
‘Lady Liberty’: Jewish Film Institute has Pride in livestream of funny TV pilot
In 2019, Italian film scholar Margherita Ghetti joined the S.F.-based Jewish Film Institute — the entity that puts on the annual San Francisco Jewish Film…
Bay Area
Rock thrown through window of Jewish, Asian-American San Mateo city council member’s house
A progressive, Jewish member of the San Mateo City Council says she felt targeted and harassed after a rock was thrown through a bedroom window of her…
Pride
LGBTQ activist Arthur Slepian set to become Federation chair
In preparing to become the next board chair of the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation, Arthur Slepian says he has been doing some “unlearning.” That’s…
Books
At 73, she's telling her story of life as a Vietnam-era anti-war fugitive
Using fake IDs and aliases, Emily L. Quint Freeman spent 20 years as a fugitive. In 1969, the 22-year-old anti-war activist and her cohorts broke into a…
Torah
Torah is the water supply that makes Jewish life possible
The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. Shavuot 1 Exodus 19:1–20:23 and Numbers 28:26-31…
Shavuot
When Haifa was party central at Shavuot
The harvest holiday of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and “Bikurim” — the first fruits of the grain…