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Dalia Fleming: We won’t be pushed out

"We need more education about what to do within different institutions to make our community feel welcome"

October 11, 2017 11:38
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When Dalia Fleming says LGBT+ Jews face exclusion from some parts of Anglo-Jewry, she is speaking from experience.

The new director of KeshetUK recalls that a couple of years ago she was pushed out of the female circle at a friend’s wedding by another guest, because of questions about her gender.

“I was wearing trousers and to them I looked like I didn’t belong there. They pushed me out and told me to get out of that space. It was horrible,” she says.

Dalia (she objects to the titles Ms or Miss and prefers to be referred to by her first name) says as the first full-time employee of the grassroots campaign group, she will work to ensure LGBT+ Jews no longer feel unwelcome in certain parts of the community.