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For days now, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this question: “Why don’t people know Harvey Milk is Jewish?” A few days ago, I added Harvey Milk to the wikipedia list of Jewish American politicians. I saw the film, MILK, starring Sean Penn, with a private audience of mostly Jews, queer and straight. [...]

I’m glad Eden has updated and clarified what he meant and thought by putting up his post on Dr. Spack and Camenker’s viewpoints, but saddened to see that he’s only linking to JVoices when he writes, “I disagree with those out there who think that there was something wrong with citing the exchange.”
What was [...]

Answer: By making it a debate of Jew vs. Jew, citing the Jewish doctor, Norman Spack, who works with trans youth in Boston, and pulling a quote by Brian Camenker, head of an ultra-conservative “family rights” organization in Boston called MassResistance.
Not only did Eden not link to the original article in the Globe (here you [...]

A week ago, Wednesday, March 26th, was the first anniversary of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s decision to admit openly gay and lesbian rabbinical and cantorial students, following on the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards’ December 2006 vote. In celebration, the students of JTS’s Committee on Inclusion a fantastic program called “Hazak Hazak V’Nithazek: Celebrating [...]

A few months back, Jewish Mosaic launched a new project, TransTexts: Exploring Gender in Jewish Sacred Texts, that Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla and Rabbinical student Reuben Zellman have been working on for quite some time.
I’ve had the honor and privilege of studying with both of these phenomenal teachers. They’ve both been incredible, and humble, leaders [...]

(apologies to those who aren’t living in new york city - this is an event announcement)
(it seems like there are many more radical purim extravaganzas going on all over the country, though, and i’m posting this announcement in part to encourage folks to think big and exciting for next year…)
this year’s eighth-or-so edition of the [...]

cross-posted to jspot:
Folks have probably heard about Rep Tom Lantos‘ passing. One tidbit you may not know yet is the support he gave to transgender folks. Emails flooded my inbox highlighting this not so well-known talking point. Here’s just one of the emails I received from the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition:

NTAC Remembers a True Hero [...]

This is just the first of a number of stories that JVoices helped break into the media that will be coming out in the next few days about the Yeshivah of Flatbush Reunions, and the call for an open door policy by Yeshivah Alumni. We’ll keep you posted as they come!
Gay Alumni of Brooklyn Yeshiva [...]

Guest blog post from Erez Lieberman (Flatbush H.S. ‘97), Open Flatbush Reunions creator and Nachshon Rothstein (Flatbush H.S. ‘98)
The petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openreunions/
The Yeshivah of Flatbush High School Class of 1997 reunion was held on December 22nd, 2007. Although the vast majority of students were invited to bring guests to the reunion, some students — including an [...]

Keshet Seeks Qualified, Energetic Development Assistant
Based in Boston, Keshet is a dynamic grassroots organization that works for the full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews in Jewish life. Keshet offers training, resources, and technical assistance for GLBT inclusion in Jewish communities nationwide and sponsors community events for GLBT Jews in the Greater Boston [...]