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be here or there or there rain or shine
I doubt that Gertrude Stein was thinking about Shabbat when she wrote, “generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything,” but I might be wrong. Tomorrow at SFMOMA I...
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Providing a Jewish community weekend for LGBTQ parents & their children to...
During one incredible weekend each summer dozens of families from across the globe gather together at Camp Tawonga for what is called, Keshet LGBTQ Family Camp. Keshet, meaning rainbow in Hebrew,...
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Have you started to celebrate LGBT Pride month yet? Here is my top ten...
Since I was a teenager I have made San Francisco Pride month an annual rite of passage that I won’t skip for anything. Here are my top 10 annual favorite Pride moments that I can hardly wait to enjoy...
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Volunteers are my personal hero's and further, they are serious superstars!...
For the past several years my work has allowed me to partner with several organizations at our two-day Jewish Community Outreach booth at San Francisco Pride. The partners we choose is based on their...
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finding the community that works for you
san francisco is the home of the third largest metropolitan jewish community in north america and within this number are approximately 36,000 lgbt queer self-identified jews. i get asked a lot about...
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taking a step forward 30 years later. sunday is the san francisco aids walk.
i was 4-years-old when the cdc announced that hiv/aids was now a reality. this was in 1981. 30 years ago. in that time i have mourned lives lost and celebrated lives lived. many of these lives were...
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An Evening in Gay Paris!
Professional networking, going to tres-gay parties, chasing movies and cute movie goers at Frameline and San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, AIDS Walking and schmoozing have dominated my queer Jewish...
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Will you join me and pledge to go purple in support of LGBT youth?
Last fall, a young person named Brittany McMillan wanted to do something about the LGBT teens who died by suicide. So she put a call out via a social network for people to wear purple on October 20th...
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Outing Rabbi Eger
In California, we are fortunate that we have become the first state in the nation to require public schools to add lessons about our gay and trans history to social studies classes. Yet, this only...
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This is a gender neutral restroom.
We speak about removing barriers for people often at my work in the organized Jewish community. These barriers we speak about can often mean finances but they can easily be much simpler and much more...
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Queer Jewish Students are invited to Washington D.C. for Leadership Conference
In the fall of 1998 the Office of Student Life at the University of Oregon received a notice in the mail about a student leadership conference aimed at empowering GLBT Jewish leaders. The Dean who...
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countering the untrue
My colleague in Washington D.C., who like me works to break down obstacles in our communities paths to living Jewishly, responds to the article, ”Bridging the gap between faith and sexuality” (WJW,...
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