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I’ve spent a decade building acceptance for LGBTQ Orthodox Jews. Now I’m watching it unravel.

by Saundra Sterling Epstein June 18, 2026June 18, 2026

(JTA) — For the past decade, I have been working, along with my colleagues at Eshel, to increase the acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals in the Orthodox Jewish world. This is […]

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Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity

A.J. Goldmann by A.J. Goldmann June 17, 2026June 17, 2026
Images of Albert Einstein and Emma Goldman are featured in "Ask Jewish Lives," an AI bot that bases its conversations on the "Jewish L:ives" series of biographies. (Dov Abramson Studio)
Posted inOpinion

Want to ask Einstein about Zionism? A new AI tool lets users chat with Jewish history

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 16, 2026June 17, 2026
Members of the recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the “San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.” (Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inLocal Voice

Remembering the rabbis who comforted gay Jews at the height of the AIDS crisis

Robb Layne by Robb Layne June 15, 2026June 16, 2026
Catherine Crystal Foster (left) and Karen Kronick trace a sanitary pad template during Congregation Beth Am's Mitzvah Day in March. (Todd Kaye)
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Fighting period poverty and menstrual ignorance, one pad at a time

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 15, 2026June 15, 2026
The San Leandro High School campus in July 2015. (newtonapple via Wikimedia Commons, CC 2.0 BY 2.0)
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School antisemitism lawsuits, for and against

by J. Readers June 12, 2026June 11, 2026
Matt Lacoff holds aloft a trans pride flag behind him on the Jewish community's float at S.F. Pride in 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

For many queer Jews, Pride has lost its joy

by Joshua Simmons June 10, 2026June 10, 2026
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Our new editor in chief: ‘J. must always be a space for us to have tough conversations’

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev June 8, 2026June 11, 2026
Protesters gathered outside a Santa Cruz theater on April 1 to demonstrate against a documentary detailing antisemitism. (Niva Ashkenazi/J. Staff)
Posted inAnalysis

Changing Jewish views on Zionism could scramble the antisemitism debate

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld June 4, 2026June 4, 2026
Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin stands in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Courtesy Bodzin)
Posted inOpinion

13 years after my arrest at the Kotel, the threat to egalitarian prayer there is growing

by Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin June 4, 2026June 4, 2026

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