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Orit Avishai

Orit Avishai is a professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University and is affiliated with its Center for Jewish Studies. Her book, Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel is forthcoming in 2023 from New York University Press.

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Religion Dispatches
Yeshiva University (YU), a storied New York City Orthodox Jewish institution, is the unlikely darling du jour of political and legal conservatives. Sued for discrimination by a group of students and…
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