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Above: Detail from Golan Moskowitz. A Jewish History of Drag?, 2025.

The Rainbow Issue

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From the Executive Director

From Out of the Archival Closet: Two Historians Reflect on the Censored Letters of Pauline Newman and Rose Schneiderman

From Out of the Archival Closet: Two Historians Reflect on the Censored Letters of Pauline Newman and Rose Schneiderman
Rachel Kranson and Anne Parsons

Rainbow Brenner

Rainbow Brenner
Hadar Aviram

Did I Always Know? Bisexual Visibility in Life and in the Archive

Did I Always Know? Bisexual Visibility in Life and in the Archive
Kerry Wallach

A Jewish History of American Drag?

A Jewish History of American Drag?
Golan Moskowitz

A Lexical and Personal History of the French-Hebrew Term Coccinelle (קוקסינל)

A Lexical and Personal History of the French-Hebrew Term Coccinelle (קוקסינל)
Iris Rachamimov

“Blessed Is the One Who Turned Me into a Man”: Gender and Trans-ness in Sephardic Halakhah

“Blessed Is the One Who Turned Me into a Man”: Gender and Trans-ness in Sephardic Halakhah
Bryan K. Roby

Queer Kinship: (Re)discovering Histories of the First LGBTQ+ Synagogue

Queer Kinship: (Re)discovering Histories of the First LGBTQ+ Synagogue
Sarah Ernst

Red Rabbi Turns Pink: Marshall Meyer’s Influence on the Debate over Four Hundred Disappeared LGBT People in Argentina

Red Rabbi Turns Pink: Marshall Meyer’s Influence on the Debate over Four Hundred Disappeared LGBT People in Argentina
Marce Joan Butierrez

Complicit Visits in the Space of Jewish-Muslim-Queer

Complicit Visits in the Space of Jewish-Muslim-Queer
Adi Saleem and Scott Spector

Stav Meishar

Strange Beauty
Stav Meishar

Home Is An/Other? Desire, Ethnicity, and Queer Documentary Cinema in Please Love and Home Is You

Home Is An/Other? Desire, Ethnicity, and Queer Documentary Cinema in Please Love and Home Is You
Shirly Bahar and Yasmin Sason

Teaching with Film and Media

Teaching with Film and Media
Olga Gershenson, Orit Avishai, and Golan Moskowitz

Roundtable: "Orthodoxy and LGBTQ+ Identity"

Roundtable: "Orthodoxy and LGBTQ+ Identity"
Roundtable Editor: Jason Schulman
Contributors: Orit Avishai, Shlomo Gleibman, Miryam Kabakov, Mie Astrup Jensen, Cathy S. Gelbin

From the Art Editor: "Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl, and Warhol’s Jews"

From the Art Editor: "Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl, and Warhol’s Jews"
Douglas Rosenberg

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