Eshel in L.A.

Jewish Community Foundation Awards Cutting Edge Grant to a JQInternational and Eshel partnership  in Los Angeles Funding Will Make Possible Initiatives Supporting Jewish Civic Life, Arts & Culture, Human Services, and Continuity September 9, 2015 The Jewish...

Moment Magazine

Steve Greenberg: How Orthodox Jews Changed Their Minds On Gay Rights Same-sex rights proponents suffered an unusual loss this week when a federal judge in Louisiana upheld the state’s ban on gay marriage, bucking a domino-like chain of favorable rulings on the issue....

The Canadian Jewish News

LGBTQ Jews need a place in community In  1952, my dad was a popular senior on his high school football team and my mother was a recent immigrant from war-torn France. It was my father’s protective instinct that caused him to intervene one day to help a newly arrived...

Leslee Komaiko

A new resource for LGBT Jews by Leslee Komaiko In 2009, nine years into Shelby Ilan-Pacheco’s marriage to her husband, she came to know with certainty something she had felt for so long. She was gay. But knowing this and doing something about it, doing anything,...

Ha'aretz

Orthodox transgender child is shut out of shul ‘God knows I’m a girl,’ says the Midwestern teen who was shunned from her synagogue upon transitioning from Moshe to Miryam. More than most kids, Moshe, who lived with his mom and siblings in a midsize...

Ha’aretz

Orthodox transgender child is shut out of shul ‘God knows I’m a girl,’ says the Midwestern teen who was shunned from her synagogue upon transitioning from Moshe to Miryam. More than most kids, Moshe, who lived with his mom and siblings in a midsize...