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Community - New York and Beyond JQYouth.org is a social and support group for frum and formerly frum GLBT Jews ages 17-30. Monthly meetings in the NYC area. Tirtzah: A Community of Frum Queer Women who gather to celebrate and study Yiddishkeit; committed to supporting one another and observing a meaningful, integrated, honest, and joyful Jewish life. Online at http://tirtzah.wordpress.com. The JCC in Manhattan offers a variety of social and cultural programs designed for the Jewish LGBT community. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in the West Village of New York City provides a huge variety of educational, cultural, and recreational programs for the GLBT communities of the New York area. (GLYDSA meets here each month.) CBST - Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York City's GLBT synagogue, welcomes Jews from all walks of life and all ages; provides religious, educational, and social programs and services. CBST is not affiliated with any Jewish movement or denomination. B'nai Jeshurun is a Conservative progressive synagogue on Manhattan's Upper West Side that is very accepting of the GLBT community. Contact the BJ Gay and Lesbian Committee at 212-787-7600 ext. 325. Congregation Rodeph Sholom is a Reform temple on Manhattan's Upper West Side that sponsors community-wide kosher GLBT Shabbat dinners, and, each June, a Friday night Pride Service. To contact the Gay and Lesbian Concerns Committee, e-mail gayandlesbian@rodephsholom.org. GayGevalt.com includes a calendar announcing Jewish GLBT events around the US. Nehirim.org works to create a spiritual and cultural community for GLBT Jews through local programs and an annual retreat. World Congress of GLBT Jews (Keshet Ga'avah) offers links to worldwide Jewish GLBT organizations. Jerusalem Open House (Bayit HaPatuach) located in downtown Jerusalem, provides social, religious, and educational services to the entire spectrum of Jerusalem's communities. Website in English or in Hebrew. Bat-Kol - Religious Lesbian Organization was founded in Israel to allow women to fulfill both their religious and lesbian identities. Meetings, social activities, and more, with a well-developed website mostly in Hebrew, but with at least one English page as well. Kulanu Toronto is a Jewish LGBTQ social group affiliated with Hillel of Greater Toronto which caters to both the student and broader Jewish LGBTQ community. In London, contact GLON (Gay and Lesbian Orthodox Network) by e-mail at glon_uk@yahoo.com or by phone as follows: from within the UK, 0777-308-6233; from the US, dial 011-44-777-308-6233. PFLAG New York City (PFLAG NYC): meetings are a safe place for parents, families, and friends of GLBT people to share experiences and to support each other. PFLAG NYC meets on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at Congregation Rodeph Sholom. PFLAG NYC is not a religious or political group. PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays): the national organization with chapters across the country--see description of PFLAG NYC above. Kirtzono (According to His Will) is a blog, "a forum for Orthodox Jewish parents, families and friends of gay men and women to humbly listen and learn from each other as we navigate these uncharted waters." The Dina Blog (and the associated Dina List) is a site for trans folk of orthodox background. The US Dept. of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have excellent information on sexual health and most sexually transmitted diseases. Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC.org), a New York-based organization: at their website, find solid information on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, including information on getting tested, and also opportunities for activism.
The GLBT National Help Center provides free and confidential telephone and e-mail counseling and information: GLBT Youth Support Line, a 24/7 crisis hotline for people under 25: Culture, Lifestyle, and Further Reading Trembling Before G-d, the groundbreaking feature documentary film by Sandi Simcha DuBowski about Orthodox gay and lesbian Jews. The film shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma -- how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. Wrestling With God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, by Rabbi Steven Greenberg (Univ. of Wisconsin Press: 2004). This book is "the product of Rabbi Greenberg's ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities. In this compelling and groundbreaking work, Greenberg challenges long held assumptions of scriptural interpretation and religious identity as he marks a path that is both responsible to human realities and deeply committed to God and Torah." (Quoted from the book jacket.) "Coming Out in the Orthodox World," one young woman's account of her coming out--and her commitment ceremony with her partner among their families and friends. By Tamar A. Prager. Printed in Lilith Magazine, Summer 2006. "Gay and Orthodox," an extensive article from Moment Magazine (April 2001) by Naomi Grossman. A selection of books of interest can be found on the Resources page of the JQYouth.org site. Conservative Rabbi Harold Schulweis has written two thoughtful articles: "Morality, Legality and Homosexuality" and "A Second Look at Homosexuality." Recommended. The searchable database of kosher restaurants at Shamash.org is a great resource--hey, who doesn't like to eat? Coming to New York? The Metropolitan Transit Authority's website, www.mta.info, has subway and bus maps and schedules, plus service advisories, to help you find your way around. Want us to add a link? Or are any of these links not working for you? Please let us know by emailing GLYDSA@hotmail.com.
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