More than 200 celebs sign letter denouncing cultural boycott of Israel By Shira Hanau, JTA Oct 27, 2021 More than 200 celebrities, including actors Mila Kunis, Billy Porter, Neil Patrick Harris and Helen Mirren, signed an open letter opposing efforts to boycott an LGBTQ film festival in Tel Aviv. The letter published Wednesday is a response to calls from activists with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to boycott the Tel Aviv International… Read More
Bay Area Young queer Israelis build bridges with American peers in Bay Area Ofer Newman and Liana Meirom Asif know how divisive Israel can be for some American Jews, especially young adults. But they also know there’s a bridge… By Maya Mirsky Oct 1, 2021
Film Eytan Fox, pop prince of Israeli cinema, keeps it queer in ‘Sublet’ Cosmopolitan without being condescending, au courant without the arrogance of hipness, Eytan Fox has been the pop prince of Israeli cinema for nearly… By Michael Fox Jun 10, 2021
Music Ezra Furman announces she's a trans woman — and a mom! This piece first appeared on Kveller and was distributed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Jewish indie rocker Ezra Furman is a trans woman — and has been… By Lisa Keys Apr 29, 2021
Bay Area A varsity letter, 63 years late: Cantor rectifies S.F. pol’s high school snub All it took was an email for a 63-year-old wound to start to heal. In December, Cantor Stephen Saxon tuned into KQED’s “Political Breakdown” and heard an… By Gabriel Greschler Mar 3, 2021
U.S. Transgender Jews find an unexpected safe haven: the farm Alex Kohanski began using the gender-neutral they/them pronouns on their first day of the Jewish farming fellowship Adamah in the fall of 2019. Though… By Ben Harris, JTA Feb 24, 2021
Local Voice Let’s install a Harvey Milk mural at S.F. State With the Leila Khaled webinar and anti-Israel panel on Sept. 23, once again San Francisco State University has made international news as a hotbed and… By Jeff Saperstein Oct 19, 2020
Profile What it’s like to come out as trans when you’re married to the rabbi Samantha Zerin headed home from a Yiddish class she had taught as part of her synagogue’s adult education program on the evening of Dec. 19 and knew her… By Josefin Dolsten, JTA Jul 1, 2020
Israel Pride rallies across Israel in lieu of annual parades They came out by the thousands across Israel to show their support for LGBTQ rights — but the numbers were a far cry from the Pride parades held annually… By Marcy Oster, JTA Jun 30, 2020