Rabbi Andrea Myers
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Rabbi Andrea Myers is the author of "The Choosing: A Rabbi's Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days" (Rutgers University Press, April 2011). After receiving her BA in neuroscience from Brandeis University, she studied for two years in Jerusalem. She was ordained at the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR), an interdenominational seminary in New York City. She is a member of the New York Board of Rabbis, and has led congregations from the Rocky Mountains to the Borscht Belt.

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A Match Worth Making? A Response to Orthodox Jewish 'Straight' Marriages

0 Comments | Posted August 19, 2011 | 12:08 PM

"Move to Denver!" It was all I could do to keep myself from shouting at the screen while watching Brokeback Mountain a few years ago. In a New York City movie theater, this behavior would not stand out. Jack and Ennis, the central characters, secret lovers for decades, were fighting....

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On Corn and Marriage: A Rabbi's Reflections from the New York Senate Gallery

0 Comments | Posted June 27, 2011 | 12:05 PM

After the vote on Marriage Equality on Friday, I sat dumbfounded in the gallery of the New York State Senate in Albany. Earlier that week, when the Senate passed a resolution declaring sweet corn the official state vegetable instead of taking up legislation on marriage equality, I knew we had...

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It Gets Beautiful: One Rabbi's Perspective on Being Jewish and LGBTQ

0 Comments | Posted May 23, 2011 | 9:42 PM

Living on Long Island as a sheltered teenager in the '80s, the term "lesbian" might as well have been a country in the Middle East, somewhere in the Interzone between Mesopotamia and Bilitis, due south of the Well of Loneliness.

That was a long time ago. I came out...

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