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Deconstructing Leviticus

Deconstructing Leviticus: Finding a Queer Spiritual Path Back from the Exile of Sacred Text By Avi Rose   Queer & Jewish–A Personal Journey And if a man lie with mankind as with womankind, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall…

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Coming Out at Camp

LESSON 6: Coming Out at Camp Goal: To create a space for CITs (Counselors in Training) to think critically about how accessible camp is for those who are LGBT. Objectives: At the end of this lesson, CITs will be able to… identify the difficulties of coming out in the camp…

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Gender in Jewish Law and Thought

Gender in Jewish Law and Thought Prepared by Oren Hayon, UW Hillel   Human Gender: The Essentialist or Biological Component   And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.  God blessed them and God said to them,…

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Challenges in Outreach to LGBTQ Interfaith Couples

The primary mission of the Jewish Outreach Institute (www.JOI.org) is to “reach out and welcome in” the intermarried, and to promote inclusiveness in the Jewish community for intermarried families and disconnected Jews. Originally founded in 1988 as a think tank and research facility devoted to the study of intermarriage, JOI’s…

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Wrestling with Steve Greenberg

“I believe we are living in an age in which the shechinah is becoming visible,” Rabbi Steve Greenberg says. “There are questions we can ask now that we have not been able to ask before.” Greenberg is “the openly gay Orthodox rabbi.” That’s the way he’s referred to in the…

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Wrestling Till Dawn (Parashat Vayishlach)

Parashat Vayishlach Wrestling Till Dawn by Joy Ladin on Friday December 04, 2009 17 Kislev 5770 Genesis 32:4 – 36:43 Tradition tells us that the Torah is not simply the story of our ancestors, that its narratives mirror and prefigure our own lives. For me, that’s certainly true of this…

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How can you be gay and Jewish?

I am sometimes asked: “How can you be gay and Jewish? Doesn’t the Bible forbid homosexuality?” Here is my attempt at an answer. At the outset, I am only answering this question as part of a subset of a subset of Jews: religious Jews who feel themselves bound or in…

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Aliyah: Trans(Per)forming Jewish Ritual

The body is nothing more than a garment. When they are naming souls in the upper world and they call out “So-and-So, the daughter of Such-and-Such,” no body yet exists, not even in the womb. Not only that—what about the couplings in Heaven? The books of the kabbalah are full…

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