2009 Press
World Shocked by Gay Center Attack
Foreign organizations appalled at Saturday's killing spree in gay lesbian youth center; quick to offer support, sympathy to Israeli gay community.
Jerusalem Post Reviews New CBST Siddur
Two new prayer books have recently been published. They come from opposite ends of the Jewish world.
By JACK RIEMER - Jerusalem Post - August 13, 2009
Everything in Order - What the New Siddurim Say, and Say About Us
Not all the passions stirred up by Jewish prayer books are directed toward God. The new “Koren Siddur” (Koren Publishers Jerusalem) is a good example.
By Benjamin Weiner - Jewish Daily Forward - Published August 19, 2009, issue of August 28, 2009.
How To Handle Hate: Jews Debate Response to the Westboro Road Show
Straight believers find a home in gay churches, synagogues
WASHINGTON — When Andi Kasarsky's husband died six years ago, members of her synagogue came to sit shiva — the customary Jewish ritual of mourning — with her.
They came in shifts for days, many of them strangers, to share her grief. And although Kasarsky was mourning her husband, many of the grievers were gay.
Manhattan synagogue makes $10G off of Westboro Baptist Church protest
A Manhattan synagogue turned a visit from hate-spewing demonstrators into a lucrative fund-raiser Sunday.
BY Erin Einhorn and Irving Dejohn DAILY NEWS WRITERS Monday, June 22nd 2009, 5:01 AM
Messages of Hate Met by Scorn and Shrugs
“The fact that this organization targeted New York City for a weekend where they could go synagogue to synagogue spewing anti-Semitism and also homophobia is just the height of ignorance and hatred,” said the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, who was one of more than 100 counterprotesters gathered Sunday morning at the Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a gay synagogue in Greenwich Village.
By A.G. SULZBERGER and COLIN MOYNIHAN NYTIMES.COM Published: June 21, 2009
Rainbow Chupah
If they’d met a generation ago, Shayna Peavey, a cantor, and Melissa De Lowe, a first-grade Judaic studies teacher, might very well have fallen in love. They might have waltzed across Israel together, setting off for little-known destinations in their leisure time — as they did when they first met as Hebrew Union College students abroad in Jerusalem. They might have regrouped in New York City, where Peavey, now 30, finished her cantorial studies, and De Lowe, 27, moved after dating Peavey for three months in Israel.
Judaism Offers a Wide Range of Views on Same-Sex Marriage
Opponents of same-sex marriage have cited the Bible and other Judeo-Christian dogma to portray gay and lesbian couples as inherently "immoral" and therefore, not deserving of the rights and benefits which society doles out to heterosexual couples.
