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GLBT Inclusion

Sections below: ► Resources ► Online Teshuvot ► Responses

Resources

1) Background Essays
2) Sample Rituals
3) Jewish Sources
4) Suggested Books and Articles
5) Making Your Synagogue Welcoming to Gays & Lesbians
6) Sample Jewish Coming Out Ceremonies

7) The Halakhic Status of Homosexual Behavior
8) A Prayer for the Yom Kippur Torah Reading - Rabbi Steve Greenberg
9) A Prayer for the Yom Kippur Torah Reading - Rabbi Victor Reinstein
10) Discrimination Creates a Second-Class Closet - Rabbi Joshua Grater

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)

Responses to the CJLS Decision on Dec. 6th, 2006
Rabbi Paul Arberman	"CJLS Journal" by Rabbi David Fine
Rabbi Jason Miller	"After the Vote" by Rabbi Danny Nevins
Anne Pettit	Rabbi Matthew L. Berkow
	Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson	Rabbi Jack Moline
	Rabbi Neal Loevinger	Rabbi Menachem Creditor Part I -- Part II
	Rabbi Barry Leff	Rabbi Judith Hauptman
	Bob Smith (response by Dahlia Schwartz)	Rabbi Irwin Kula

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