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Mar 15, 2021, 5:24 PM

Enough talk, now ban this wicked pseudo science

Keshet UK Pride picture from 2017, with a Jewish member of the march wearing a kippah, alongside another with an Israel flag. (Jewish News)

While we celebrate the upcoming festival of Pesach, and contemplate freedom, LGBTQ+ people in the UK still lack the legal safety they need against abusive conversion therapy. I went through this process when I was 17 because my Orthodox community and its leadership failed me....

May 1, 2020, 1:03 PM

Dual-isolation of LGBT Jews during this pandemic

Man wears a rainbow kippa at celebration in Jerusalem, Israel (Jewish News)

This year, the Torah reading of Aharei Mot-Kedoshim falls during the coronavirus pandemic where we have been forced into physical isolation. These texts contain the sources that have been interpreted to condemn sex and relationships between men and are the source for much of the...

Jul 17, 2019, 4:05 PM

I survived abusive religious ‘conversion’ therapy

Pride in London earlier this month (Jewish News)

This week, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, Israel’s Education Minister, former IDF chief rabbi and a former Modern Orthodox rosh yeshiva, spoke out in support for so-called conversion therapy. I am a religious gay man who survived ‘conversion therapy’ but not everyone survives this destructive, abusive and...

Sep 6, 2018, 11:32 AM

Chief Rabbi Mirvis writes LGBT+ Jews into the Book of Life

I grew up in a world where sexuality wasn’t mentioned in Jewish schools. I wasn’t able to share my sexuality with anyone while at school, due to fear of discrimination and bullying. The only context in which I had ever heard the word “gay” was...

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Joe is a religious LGBT activist