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A Train Ride With Avraham

Matt Adler | Posted 04.03.2012

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Matt Adler

All my life I had worked to build my confidence as a member of the LGBT community. And here was a man from halfway around the world whom I had never met before telling me whom to sleep with. This man whom I worked so hard not to stereotype was proving to be ever so stereotypical.

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Family Feud: How to Cope with Family Resistance

Dougall Fraser | Posted 03.25.2012

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Dougall Fraser

Recently, David received an invitation to a bar mitzvah on his side of the family. It was explained to us that I was not invited to the synagogue for services because it would create too much gossip within their religious community.

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Once Upon a Gay: A Jewish Journey Through the Ex-Gay Movement

Jayson Littman | Posted 01.21.2012

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Jayson Littman

Many people are surprised when I tell them I voluntarily entered reparative therapy at the age of 21 without pressure from family or religious leaders. During that time in my life, it was a choice between conversion therapy and not wanting to live anymore.

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Why I'm Going Back to My Synagogue After 25 Years Away

Wayne Hoffman | Posted 01.15.2012

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Wayne Hoffman

I decided in my teens that I was done with synagogue -- largely because as I came to terms with being a young gay man, I realized that the Conservative movement didn't have room for me.

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Orthodox Judaism And Homosexuality: Choosing Healing Over Hatred

Ari Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Hart

The question of whether sexual orientation is primarily genetic, or rather environmentally generated, is irrelevant to the Jewish obligation to treat human beings with dignity and respect.

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Why Jews Should Rejoice at the Overturning of Prop 8

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi Michael Lerner

The rights of homosexuals are supported by an overwhelming majority of the American Jewish community. That support is not only based on a memory of shared victimhood, but also on the core values of our own Jewish tradition.

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Orthodox Jews Issue Statement In Support Of Gays

Religion News Service | By Michele Chabin | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) More than 100 modern-Orthodox rabbis, educators and mental-health professionals in Israel ...

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