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The big news of the week was Irish voters’ overwhelming “yes” vote on a proposal to add marriage equality to the country’s constitution. The lopsided nature of the vote in heavily Catholic Ireland –…

PlanetRomeo released a global “ Gay Happiness index,” placing Iceland at the top and Uganda at the bottom of 127 rated countries. Last Friday, HBO’s Vice broadcast “A Prayer for Uganda,” a documentary…

Why I left Hillel.

We’ve left the two-state solution long behind—let’s not ignore other possibilities for peace.

We have reported on the appointment of the first U.S. Special Envoy for LGBT Equality. This week, Adebisi Alimi, a lecturer in pre- and post-colonial sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa…

More than 100 million people have viewed a video produced by the Chinese branch of PFLAG urging parents to welcome their LGBT children home for Lunar New Year celebrations. The website Erasing 76…

To many Israelis, the world of Christian Zionism is largely hidden from public view. But a new report out from the Israeli progressive think tank, Molad, aims to change that, casting a bright light on…

Rachel Maddow broke the news last night that Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s Director of Issue Analysis, has been fired, following media coverage and pressure from watchdog groups…

Merav Michaeli, the Israeli journalist-turned-politician now serving in the Knesset as a member of the opposition Labor Party, is an antidote to the lament of the death of liberal Zionism. At a time…

Remember a few weeks ago I wrote that Israel will be a 2016 litmus test for evangelical voters? Here’s more evidence that I’m right: Zeke Miller reports in TIME that all Republican National Committee…