JQY (Jewish Queer Youth) will honor Tony Award-winning actor Brandon Uranowitz with the Jewish Queer Icon Award this March ...
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Singer-songwriter Jill ...
The largest direct service provider for queer Jewish youth has announced that they will honor Tony Award-winning producer, educator and entrepreneur Rachel Sussman as their inaugural Jewish Queer Icon ...
This article is also available as a weekly newsletter, “Life Stories,” where we remember those who made an outsize impact in the Jewish world — or just left their community a better or more ...
(New York Jewish Week) — Shelly Weiss, a political activist who promoted LGBTQ culture in the arts and mentored a younger generation of Jewish progressive activists, died Feb. 22. She was 77. Kolot ...
Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule died in a house fire at age 66 at her home in Woodbury, Minnesota, on May 1. A self-described “two-hit wonder,” Sobule is best known for her songs “I Kissed a Girl” and ...