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  1. This Pride, queer Jews are feeling the strain — and sometimes unsafe — over Israel, By Andrew Lapin June 18, 2024

    “Individuals and Organizations have targeted our board members, including [with] threats of violence,” Cincinnati Pride said in an Instagram statement.

    ...Critics say this is creating an atmosphere of antisemitism or Israel-related “litmus tests” for queer Jews, caught between two marginalized identities whose communal politics are growing further apart.

    “We’re now in a very, very serious moment when we need all hands on deck,” Ethan Felson, executive director of LGBTQ Jewish group A Wider Bridge, said earlier this month during a Pride-focused community briefing with the Jewish Federations of North America...

    Felson said such groups “want to take Pride away from all of us.”

    jta.org/2024/06/18/united-stat

    #Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Antisemitism #Oct7 #LGBTQ #JewishPride #Pride

  2. A quote from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, ztl, #Hanukkah candles are the light that #Judaism brings to the world when we are unafraid to announce our identity in public, live by our principles and fight, if necessary, for our freedom.

    israelforever.org/interact/blo

    #Jewishculture #Maccabees #JewishPride