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We have reported on the appointment of the first U.S. Special Envoy for LGBT Equality. This week, Adebisi Alimi, a lecturer in pre- and post-colonial sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa…

From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.

For these “religious freedom” advocates, it’s women.

It’s the same pattern of behavior we’re seeing from other “religious freedom” fighters.

During an American University panel on the recent war in Gaza earlier this month, Rabbi Shira Stutman related a story of a friend who was scandalized to learn that her rabbi served on J Street’s…

This week’s global LGBT justice roundup, with a focus on Africa.

Human rights groups methodically tally each man, woman and child killed in Gaza (797 as of this writing, most of them civilians, 5,100 wounded), while the media arm of the Israeli Defense Forces…

Israel’s new president, Likud’s Reuven Rivlin, elected by the Knesset on Tuesday, once called Reform Judaism “idol worship.” In 1989, Rivlin attended Shabbat services at two Reform synagogues in the…

September rally planned for Jerusalem.

Why aren’t American anti-choice groups up in arms?