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Bob Stein holds up the banner for recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. (Photo/Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Archives Week: How we covered — or didn’t cover — LGBTQ Jews over the years

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 15, 2022February 16, 2022
Rabbi Camille Angel at the University of San Francisco's Lone Mountain Campus. (Photo/Lea Loeb)
Posted inBay Area

Meet the rabbi ‘queering’ religion at Jesuit Catholic USF

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb February 11, 2022February 12, 2022
Barry Wendell (left), a Democratic congressional candidate in West Virginia, is married to Rabbi Joe Hample (right).
Posted inNews

A gay Jewish liberal (and rabbi’s husband) is running for Congress in deep-red West Virginia

by Lee Chottiner and JTA February 8, 2022February 8, 2022
Rebekah Erev, co-founder of the Queer Mikveh Project, blows the shofar at the first QMP mikvah event at the Albany Bulb in Albany, California, in 2015. (Photo/JTA-Chani Bockwinkel)
Posted inReligion

The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews in a changing ritual

by Rachel Román and JTA January 12, 2022January 13, 2022
Stephen Sondheim listening to music in the recording control room during the original cast recording of the Broadway musical "Into The Woods" in 1987. (Photo/JTA-Oliver Morris'Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

How Stephen Sondheim helped me find my gay Jewish sensibility

Reb Irwin Keller by Rabbi Irwin Keller November 30, 2021December 1, 2021
Rabbis Becca Walker (left) and Ariella Rosen became the first same-sex rabbinical couple to be married in the Conservative movement. (Photo/JTA-Kelly Prizel Photography)
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Their same-sex rabbinical wedding was a historic first for the Conservative movement

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA November 10, 2021
Ezra Furman performs at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, Nov. 14, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Robin Little-Redferns-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Ezra Furman is a mother, a queer role model, a Shabbat-observant indie rocker — and, now, a rabbinical student

by Ella Rockart and JTA September 3, 2021April 4, 2022
a white man with short salt-and-pepper hair
Posted inUncategorized

Israel will now let gay men donate blood

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA August 23, 2021
a row of small trans flags along a curb
Posted inMixed & Matched

Transitioning to my true self includes converting to Judaism. Can I?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler August 11, 2021August 11, 2021
Cantor Sharon Bernstein of Congregation Sha'ar Zahav participates in the Pride Seder on June 13, 2021. (Screenshot)
Posted inReligion

‘It reminds us why Pride exists’: S.F. Pride Seder honors queer liberation

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 16, 2021June 23, 2021

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