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Yeshiva vs. Pride

On Friday, SCOTUS issued an order by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that allows Yeshiva University in New York to refuse to recognize an LGBTQ club for students.
Steve Greenberg, Yehuda Kurtzer, Miryam Kabakov
Rabbi Steve Greenberg is a former faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and senior teaching fellow at CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Steve has broken boundaries and led the fight to make Orthodox Judaism more open and inclusive and accepting of homosexual members. Steve was featured in the acclaimed 2001 film Trembling Before G-d, about Orthodox gay Jews, and has appeared in more than 500 post-screening community dialogues

Yehuda Kurtzer

Miryam Kabakov

 

On Friday, SCOTUS issued an order by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that allows Yeshiva University in New York to refuse to recognize an LGBTQ club for students. In this episode of Identity/Crisis hosted by Yehuda Kurtzer, guests Miryam Kabakov, Executive Director and Co-founder of Eshel, and award-winning writer and Rabbi, Steve Greenberg, discuss the case and the unfolding process through which conservative religious communities, such as Orthodox Judaism, define the norms of that community.

 

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