Dreaming from Within
1) Articles/Essays from CJ: Voices of Conservative Judaism Issue (Spring 2009)
No Closets, All Windows: Walking In The Light RABBI WESLEY GARDENSWARTZ stresses how Jewishly necessary it is to welcome gay men and lesbiansSome Family Stories DR. SUSAN E. HODGE writes about her straight son, her straight daughter, and her gay daughter
Koach Sets the Bar High REBECCA KIRZNER is glad to have found acceptance, as well as a leadership role, in one of the movement’s first organizations to reach out and accept queer-identified students
Gay and Ger - Hiding at the Seminary As both a convert and a gay man, RABBI ANTONIO DIGESU decided that it was worth acquiring the rabbinical degree he so desired even if it meant staying in the closet
Journeying in the Desert - Claiming Our Identities and Our Torah The first openly gay rabbinical student at JTS, AARON WEININGER reflects on his experiences
All is Created for His Glory NOFRAT FRENKEL, an Israeli medical student who grew up in the Masorti movement, being a lesbian does not mean that she is any less committed to the mitzvot
Living in Two Worlds - Not Always a Choice It is heartbreaking when a gay couple cannot receive the benefits of citizenship because one of them is not a citizen. RABBI GAIL DIAMOND and her partner made aliyah in order to take advantage of Israel’s liberal legal protections for gay couples
Building a More Inclusive Space USY and United Synagogue had to figure out what the law committee teshuvot on gays meant for their chapters and synagogues, according to BONNIE RIVA RAS
Opening Doors As a congregant who stakes her life on the sanctity of halachah, DR. ILANA GOLDHABER-GORDON believes that the law committee decision has opened the gates of righteousness
Closeted No More, or Why Jewish American Culture Really is Gay You might not know it, but many of the classics of Jewish American culture grapple with decidedly queer issues, according to DR. WARREN HOFFMAN
Hinenu - Responding To The Teshuvot JOANNE PALMER considers how schools and synagogues are working to ensure safe, accepting, and sensitive environments
4) Making Your Synagogue Welcoming to Gays & Lesbians
5) The Halakhic Status of Homosexual Behavior
6) The Hillel LGBTQ Resource Guide (PDF)
7) A Prayer for the Yom Kippur Torah Reading - Rabbi Steve Greenberg
8) A Prayer for the Yom Kippur Torah Reading - Rabbi Victor Reinstein
9) Discrimination Creates a Second-Class Closet - Rabbi Joshua Grater
10) From Rabbi David Greenstein:
Responses to the CJLS Decision on Dec. 6th, 2006
Rabbi Paul Arberman // Rabbi Jason Miller // Anne Pettit
CJLS Journal by Rabbi David Fine // "After the Vote" by Rabbi Danny Nevins
Rabbi Matthew L. Berkowitz // // Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson // Rabbi Barry Leff
Rabbi Neal Loevinger // Rabbi Jack Moline // Rabbi Irwin Kula
Online Teshuvot
1) "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah" by Rabbi Daniel Nevins. Rabbi Elliot Dorff and Rabbi Avram Reisner (approved by the CJLS) *summary
2) "Homosexuality Revisted" by Rabbi Joel Roth (approved by the CJLS) *summary
3) "The Halakhah of Same-Sex Relations in a New Context" by Rabbi Myron Geller, Rabbi Robert Fine, and Rabbi David Fine (not approved by the CJLS) *summary
4) "Halakhic and Metahalakhic Arguments Concerning Judaism and Homosexuality" by Rabbi Gordon Tucker (not approved by the CJLS) *summary
5) "Dear David" (English -- Hebrew) by Rabbi Simchah Roth (not approved by the CJLS)
6) "Gay & Lesbian Burial" by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (not approved by the CJLS)