the perceived mistreatment and exclusion with march organizer Jill Raney. Thereafter, D.C. Dyke March organizers allowed the group to participate in the march with their LGBT Jewish Pride flags. 2020s 2019/2020 - Students at Yeshiva University led advocacy efforts to end LGBTQ+ discrimination in their Orthodox undergraduate community, facilitated a Pride March, and ultimately filed a discrimination complaint against Yeshiva University with the NYC Human Rights Commission for refusing to authorize an LGBTQ+ club for a second year in a row. 2022 - The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards approved a ruling authorizing non-gendered language for the aliyah, and the honors of the hagbah (lifting the Torah) and the gelilah (rolling up the Torah). The ruling also includes non-gendered language for calling up Cohens and Levis (descendants of the tribe of Levi) as well as how to address people without gendered language during the prayer Mi Shebeirach. This was a codification of a practice that already existed in places Jewish transgender people led. Further reading Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, with editor Noach Dzmura (North Atlantic Books, 2010). Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, with editors Rebecca Alpert, Sue Elwell and Shirley Idelson (Rutgers University Press, 2001). Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition, by Rebecca Alpert (Columbia University Press, 1997). Nice Jewish Girls. A Lesbian Anthology, with Evelyn Torton Beck as compiler-editor (Persephone Press, 1982). Reprinted: Beacon Press, Boston 1984 und 1989. Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish, with editors Christie Balka and Andy Rose (Beacon Press, 1991). See also Sexuality and Judaism Homosexuality and Judaism Same-sex marriage and Judaism Transgender people and Judaism LGBT-affirming denominations in Judaism LGBT clergy in Judaism LGBT rights in Israel Jewish LGBT organizations List of LGBT Jews References Jewish Schisms in Judaism LGBT