lensheroes:

The Rabbi by jakemetzgerphotography on Flickr.

allah-made-me-tiny:

Joseph and Mary making their way toward Bethlehem, only to find their route blocked by the Israeli West Bank barrier.

cr:banksy Facebook

ronsho:

historic day: Google launched today its most newest campus in.. Tel Aviv !

Campus Tel Aviv (aka Campus TLV) was launched today by Google and will give entrepreneurs access to Google’s teams and experts, and will provide access to a wide range of smartphones and tablets for developing mobile apps. Tel Aviv - way to go !

pflagmom:

JEWISH COMMUNITY PLEDGE

In response to the devastating spate of LGBT teen suicides, Keshet launched “Do Not Stand Idly By: A Jewish Community Pledge to Save Lives.”

Over 11,000 individual Jews and more than 1,000 Jewish organizations signed the pledge.

SIGN THE PLEDGE

I’m about to cry. I….this means a whole lot to me. I…I can’t even.

knowhomo:

LGBTQ* History In The News

Pride Month News You Should Know

(the following text from JPost.com)

Last gay Jewish Holocaust survivor dies

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, 

Gad Beck, a resistance fighter during World War II, passes away in Berlin days before his 89th birthday

BERLIN – Gad Beck, an anti-Nazi Zionist resistance fighter and the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died on Sunday in Berlin. He passed away in a senior citizens’ home six days before his 89th birthday, which would have been on June 30.

Beck was a pioneering gay activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German society. He was famous for his witty, lively style of speaking.

On a German talk show, he said, “The Americans in New Yorkcalled me a great hero. I said no… I’m really a little hero.”

Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform and entered a deportation center to free his Jewish lover Manfred Lewin, who had declined to separate himself from his family.

The Nazis would later deport the entire Lewin family to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Speaking about his life as a gay Jew, Beck invoked a line frequently cited about homosexuality: “God doesn’t punish for a life of love.”

Read more HERE

For more KNOWhomo posts on the Pink Triangle/gay Holocaust persecution:

A Survivor’s Story — Read Here

Paragraph 175 — Read Here

Pink Triangle History — Read Here

(Upsetting) Post-Camp History — Read Here

Pink Triangle Memorial — Read Here 

Photo Blog Series — Look Here

Theatre/Play about Pink Triangles: Bent — Read Here

Graphic Novel, including a Hitler Youth Homosexual Relationship —Read Here

I am not a second class citizen.
Stop shoving Jesus down my throat.
I have a soul, so shut up.

You’re getting married? That’s awesome! I can’t wait to say the same one day.
You love Jesus? That’s great! I don’t, but that’s okay.
Actually, I have a freckle for every soul I’ve stolen and that includes yours.

So, the other night I told you about how I was texting a gay and Jewish guy, yes?

Well, first of all I need to correct something.

He is bisexual, not gay.  This does not worry me, at all.  Out of respect though, I have to correct what I had said previously.  Oh yes, and his name is Shane.

And things are moving quite quickly with the two of us.  We spent a lot of the day with each other yesterday.  It was Yom Kippur, so I introduced him to Fluxx as to help us keep our minds off of the fast.  Eventually, our talking with each other moved to his bed and eventually became cuddling, and making out.  Was I expecting it?  No.  Was I surprised?  No.  I will say this though: it was some intense cuddling.

So after we realized that it was way past sundown, we broke the fast at Chicken Express.  I kid you not, Chicken Express.  And afterwards we came to my room, since my roommate is gone until this afternoon, and watched TV.  It was my first time watching Jersey Shore, and I definitely laughed out loud.  Snooki had some really funny moments, mostly because she’s Snooki, and there were other funny things.  However, there was SO MUCH DRAMA.  It was kinda ridiculous and I’m pretty sure it was over-exaggerated.  Anyway, after that we had some more of that cuddling I was talking about.

Yep, that’s about it.  Well, that’s all I’m gonna share at least. :P

And all I have to say about yesterday’s experience: thank you college.