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Prayer for AIDS Awareness Shabbat
Before Lighting the Shabbat Candles:
Tonight, on AIDS Awareness Shabbat, we kindle these lights. Not only do these lights signify the beginning of Shabbat they symbolize much more. Tonight these lights represent the memories that continue to shine of those whom we have lost to the AIDS epidemic. Tonight these lights illuminate the path to wholeness and healing for all of us who are affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. Tonight these lights ignite the sparks within that call us to action. Tonight these lights are beacons of hope for an AIDS-free world.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/prayer-aids-awareness-shabbat
Posted on: 2016/04/15 - 11:49am
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Understanding Transgender Issues in Jewish Ethics
The dominant approach to gender in Western society has its origin in Christian thought that understands both sex and gender as binary. In that understanding, everyone is either male or female, and gender and sex are identical. While Jews gradually absorbed that perspective, classical rabbinic Judaism had a much more sophisticated understanding.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/understanding-transgender-issues-jewish-ethics
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 3:48pm
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Seeing the Other
Recently I was invited to teach a group of queer Jewish undergraduates who on their own initiative, organized themselves into a group that meets weekly over dinner at the campus Hillel Foundation (Jewish Center) to discuss topics and issues of common concern. They asked me to speak on “Queering Jewish Theology,” and I led them for an hour through a study of several traditional sacred texts that suggest ways that human beings might engage with God in a way that does not depend on the approval of communal human authorities.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/seeing-other
Posted on: 2014/01/01 - 12:00am
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Coming Out
Long before I came out as a gay man when I was 49 years old, I had heard the saying: “Coming out is a process, not an event.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/coming-out
Posted on: 2014/06/01 - 12:00am
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Transgender Policy Statement
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, at its annual meeting, overwhelmingly approved an expansive resolution affirming the full inclusion, equality, and welcoming of all transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals. (The full text of the resolution is included below.)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/statement-support-transgender-non-binary-inclusion
Posted on: 2017/03/29 - 12:34pm
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Response to Orlando attack
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/statement-orlando-attack-we-mourn-we-pray
Posted on: 2016/06/14 - 2:12pm
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"Straight-Welcoming?!" – Creating an Inclusive Community
Jewish communities of all stripes are grappling with the challenge of creating more inclusive communities. In particular, there is an unprecedented focus on welcoming LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Jews. At Congregation Bet Haverim (CBH) in Atlanta, our commitment to inclusivity emerged organically. Founded by gay and lesbian Jews, we became straight-welcoming; today, straight members constitute the majority. We had to decide whether our values were queer specific or queer universal.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/straight-welcoming-creating-inclusive-community
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 11:25am
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MJL Interview with Rabbi Toba Spitzer
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/interview-rabbi-toba-spitzer
Posted on: 2017/07/26 - 11:38am
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Statement Opposing Trump Plan to Curtail Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association lift our collective voices in support of transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people — our loved ones, our community leaders, and people across the globe.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/statement-rights-transgender
Posted on: 2018/10/22 - 10:20pm
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Pride Month, Israel, and Us
A personal message from Rabbi Deborah Waxman:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/pride-month-israel-and-us
Posted on: 2019/06/11 - 2:58pm