Israel’s pride celebration has just finished. So let’s talk about queer issues. How does Judaism feel about homosexuality? How does it work in Budapest? Gay life has become much better in Hungary in the past 10 years. Straight people became more open, and their acceptance towards gays has increased. Gay couples are allowed to have [...]
Israel’s pride celebration has just finished. So let’s talk about queer issues. How does Judaism feel about homosexuality? How does it work in Budapest? Gay life has become much better in Hungary in the past 10 years. Straight people became more open, and their acceptance towards gays has increased. Gay couples are allowed to have [...]
It is strange to be planning a “return” to a “homeland” I did not grow up in, to study its history – a history intertwined with my own family’s. The short version is: I am going (“back”) to South Africa this summer on a institutionally-funded research grant for my Bachelor’s Thesis at the University of [...]
On April 28th, the first-ever Yidishtog (“Yiddish Day”) took place at the Miles Nadal JCC in downtown Toronto. The event, presented by one of Toronto’s Jewish arts and culture nonprofits, Ashkenaz, was an exciting novelty for the city’s Jewish community, whose Yiddish-speaking population (as has been noted by such publications as the Globe and Mail) [...]
