Susan Cottrell is a prominent voice for faith parents of LGBTQI children. She is an international speaker, acclaimed author, and public theologian with a Masters in Theological Studies. After spending 25 years in the Evangelical church, she founded FreedHearts to champion the LGBTQI community and th...

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi

Located on a 22-dunam (5.5-acre) parcel of land overlooking the Mediterranean, the Port of Tel Aviv and alongside Tel Aviv’s largest green belt, the World’s Jewish Museum will be a new symbol of the Jewish people. The project will connect Hayarkon Park, the Mediterranean Sea and anchor the Tel Aviv

In Loving Memory: President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde, mourning privately for three hours with anguished families of the 19 school children and two teachers killed by a gunman. Faced with chants of “do something” as he departed a church service, Biden pledged: “We wil

In the five decades since the Stonewall uprising in New York City in 1969, a new emphasis on inclusivity has changed the public face of the LGBTQ movement, highlighting the diversity of communities who, through a mélange of parties and politics, have been fighting for equal rights all along.

Starbucks released in teh Fall of 2015 its first LGBTQ-driven commercial featuring drag queens.

20 years after being killed in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming, Matthew Shepard will be laid to rest at the Washington National Cathedral. Shepard's October 1998 death became an important symbol spotlighting the discrimination experienced by the LGBTQ community.

Gerda Weissmann Klein, the Holocaust survivor, author, speaker, and activist died on April 3, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 97. Her book, “All But My Life,” first written 1957 and continuously in print for the past 65 years, was among the earliest Holocaust memoirs. In 1995, her biography

In his recent remarks to congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his countrymen and women, and of his land, in loving terms. I immediately remembered the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) set by David Nowakowsky (1848-1921), of the Brodsky Synagogue in Odessa, which evokes ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a moment when the gay community in New York City stood up against oppressors and began the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights.