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Mayoral candidate Mark Leno, seen here in the Castro district of San Francisco
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Mark Leno: mayoral candidate and one-time rabbinical student

by Joe Eskenazi May 16, 2018May 16, 2018
Emily Levy (right) and Lizz Litteral say their vows under the chuppah at Bayview Opera House in San Francisco (Photo/Eduardo Hueck)
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99 percent compatible, 100 percent committed to love

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 30, 2018April 30, 2018
Rabbinical students at Hebrew College near Boston, including Gita Karasov, left, are creating a video that shows women, transgender and non-binary Jews demonstrating how to wear tefillin. (Photo/JTA-Dena Trugman)
Posted inJewish Life

Learning to wear tefillin from women and transgender Jews

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten April 10, 2018April 10, 2018
The cast of "A Letter to Harvey Milk" in one of the play's musical numbers
Posted inCulture

Off-Broadway Harvey Milk musical puts gay Jewish pride onstage

Ted Merwin by Ted Merwin March 28, 2018April 2, 2018
Hilary Zaid's debut novel is called "Paper is White."
Posted inCulture

Bridging queer and Jewish identities in debut novel from East Bay author

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 12, 2018March 12, 2018
Esther Thorpe, left, identifies as non-binary and had a gender-neutral b'nei mitzvah ceremony with the help of rabbinical student Gabriel Webber.
 (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Miriam Taylor Thorpe)
Posted inJewish Life

Non-binary teen’s gender-neutral b’nai mitzvah was ‘a big responsibility’

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten March 5, 2018March 5, 2018
Drag queen performer Jenayah De Rosario will be featured at a havdalah ceremony at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, Mass. (Photo/Courtesy De Rosario; collage/JTA)
Posted inJewish Life

This Jewish day school’s drag queen havdalah ceremony has S.F. roots

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten January 19, 2018January 19, 2018
Investor and activist Seth Rosenberg
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Q&A: A tech VC invested in saving the lives of LGBT refugees

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller December 1, 2017December 1, 2017
Children sitting at the Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation in New York City, March 3, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Drew Angerer-Getty Images)
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Five takeaways from a new survey of Modern Orthodox Jews

Ben Sales by Ben Sales October 3, 2017March 19, 2018
Sasha Gayle-Schneider of Oakland on the set of the new season of "Transparent," which is set in Israel. (Photo/Courtesy Sasha Gayle-Schneider)
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A queer Jew’s moment of fame on TV’s queerest, most Jewish show

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 27, 2017March 23, 2018

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