On June 28, 2014, during the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision allowing marriages to continue in California popular transportation service Uber provided 8 lucky couples spontaneous weddings in San Francisco in celebration of the city's Pride event and marriage equality. The couples ...

Jets? Sharks? Latkes? Sufganiyot? Doesn’t matter where your allegiance lies: finding the light is always worth the fight -- for all #eightnights! Get #cool, boys and girls, to this Chanukah homage to one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time. Chag Sameach!

When Sophie Tucker began singing this song written by Yellen & Pollack in 1925, the Jewish experience in America had included many mothers dealing with privations to care for their families, all the while passing down values that their tradition holds dear. Whether or not you have a “Yiddishe Momme”

Sam Smith Performs At White House To Celebrate Respect For Marriage Act on December 13, 2022 when President Joe Biden signed it into law. Sam Smith was part of an important date for LGBTQ+ Americans this afternoon. On Tuesday, December 13th President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act wh...

The Maccabeats have also incorporated images of Jewish survival and solidarity through the decades, from that German image of a menorah in a window sill surrounded by Nazi flags, to the 1933 American Jewish Congress march against Nazism, to the 1987 march for Soviet Jewry in DC. There are also plent...

From their origins in Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto, the Rothschilds became the most powerful banking family of the 19th century.From their origins in Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto, the Rothschilds became the most powerful banking family of the 19th century. Four generations of the Rothschild family have si

New England Patriots wide receiver and gay rights advocate Julian Edelman recently took a “life-changing” trip to Israel with Combined Jewish Philanthropies to connect with his Jewish heritage. And the group put out a video this week which stars Edelman visiting many of the country’s holy sites, re

A movement six generations in the making. Watch the Official Trailer for PRIDE now. Pride will trace the history of LGBTQ culture and civil rights in the United States from the pre-Stonewall underground culture days to the Lavender Scare, to AIDS to the modern “culture war” movement. The series wi

The most amazing part of this short documentary about this impressive woman is not the meeting with the Pope. It is actually President Joe Biden. Whether you think Joe Biden is fit to serve in the Oval Office or not, his show of humanity in front of this woman is truly impressive. There were ten dif...

In Spring 2018, five speakers selected from the Collaboratory Network--Gamal Palmer, Carine Warsawski, Rabbi Lori Shapiro, Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, and Arya Marvazy--worked with ELI Talks to hone and effectively present their own stories of risk-taking at a storytelling event for the May 2018 gat...