Welcome to my blog
This is a place for me to collect my thoughts about being an Orthodox Jew who happens to be gay. I also want to comment on news and events concerning Orthodox LGT Jews. For now I will remain anonymous.
Latest from the Blog
Supporting Change or Ceding Authority?
Why supporting Orthodox gay Jews to become advocates, without providing high level Torah learning, will end with YCT ceding authority on LGT issues to those same advocates. This will be my final post on YCT, at least for a while. They have undertaken a monumental challenge in working to advance LGT tolerance and acceptance in…
Book: Mourning and Celebration
I wanted to recommend a book I recently read. It was a portal into another time and place, imagining how Jews a hundred years ago dealt with homosexuality. I try to spend time on Shabbos reading. Most of the time its catching up on reading for school, rarely I have time to read for leisure.…
The Next big issue for Orthodox LGT Jews
With so many pressing issues concerning Orthodox LGT people, which issue should YCT support first? Marriage? Coming Out? Or Something else entirely? In my last post I talked about meeting YCT’s Director of LGBTQ+ Initiatives. He had shared a plethora of meaningful concerns and questions LGT people and their Rabbis face. Questions about LGT relationships,…
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