LGBTQ+
Police arrest 16-year-old from Bnei Brak suspected of setting fire to Pride flag in Tel Aviv
The teen was arrested on Sunday morning, and police found a burnt Pride flag and a lighter during a search of his belongings.
Conservative Judaism’s new line on intermarriage is a great start. What comes next is key - opinion
Trans screenwriter Our Lady J condemns anti-Zionism in LGBTQ spaces: ‘Zionism is not a dirty word’
Trump draws criticism after joking about transgender athlete at Kennedy Center
US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage right
The conservative majority court voted 6-3 to deny the bid from a former county clerk who went to prison for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Olympic committee moves toward blanket ban on transgender women athletes
The ban is set to come into effect in early 2026, The Times reported.
US Supreme Court allows Trump's passport policy targeting transgender people
The administration's policy reverses decades of practice at the US State Department, which had permitted passport sex designations to differ from sex assigned at birth with medical documentation.
‘Jewish safety’ isn’t one thing. Let’s stop reducing a million NYers to a single concern - opinion
Discourse on "Jewish safety" in the NYC election is dehumanizing. A queer Jewish woman and JQY director argues that safety includes both fighting hate crimes and the freedom to be one's whole self.
'Ha'ikar': How two Toronto Jews created a group for those experiencing antisemitism - interview
"After October 7, I was just feeling really angry and lost, and I felt like there was something that could be done,” Weiss told The Jerusalem Post.
Debra Messing to take part in TLVFest
Messing will take part in the festival’s closing event and will speak to the festival’s founder and director, Yair Hochner, about her strong connection to the LGBT community and her activism.
In National Book Awards finalist, Jewish trans boy and golem team up to save the world
The novel, which is aimed for middle-grade readers, features a young Jewish transgender boy who teams up with a golem, a creature from Jewish folklore, to save the world from demons.
Bodies of three transgender women left on roadside in Pakistan spark demands for justice
The discovery of the bodies came only two days after a transgender woman was wounded in a knife attack.
Additional Gaza flotilla rift revealed: Schism over LGBTQ+ activists on ships
Saif Ayadi: "The Zionist lobby uses propaganda around our queer identities to attack the flotilla, break its unity, and discredit it."
Jewish, LGBTQ+ Cornell students get violent threats from fake university president email account
The fake university president emails targeting the Jewish and LGBTQ communities with "vile antisemitic and homophobic language" first began on Thursday.