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• Resources & Links • Organized under the following headings (click or scroll): Community - in/around New York City GLYDSA.org--you're at our site now!--is a New York City-based group with a goal of establishing a friendly and supportive community for lesbian and gay yeshiva and day school alumni, and all others with a commitment to their Jewish heritage. Click on GLYDSA in the menu to the left. Eshel, a partnership of organizations and individuals working to build understanding and support for lesbians and gays in traditional Jewish communities. Created in 2010, participating organizations include GLYDSA, JQYouth, and others. (Eshel has run several wonderful shabbatonim for frum gay Jews since January 2011). JQYouth.org is a social and support
group for frum and formerly frum GLBT Jews ages 17-30.
Monthly meetings in the NYC area. The Marlene Meyerson JCC 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. (This is where GLYDSA used to hold the monthly meetings.) He'bro is an organization in
NYC that promotes the celebration of one's Jewish and gay
identities especially through social events. Part of
JQInternational.org (see below). 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. PFLAG New York City (PFLAG NYC): meetings are a safe place for parents, families, and friends of GLBTQ people to share experiences and to support each other. PFLAG NYC is not a religious or political group. ...and beyond New York City A Wider Bridge is a North American organization working through education, advocacy, relationship-building and grant-making to create equality in Israel by expanding LGBTQ inclusion in Israel, and equality for Israel by cultivating constructive engagement with Israel. JQInternational.org is a Los Angeles-based organization whose mission includes "creating community and advancing greater inclusion of LGBT Jews and Allies via identity building programs and services that embody Jewish values." NUJLS, The National Union of Jewish LGBT Students, is dedicated to building community for queer-identified Jewish college and university students in the US. World Congress of GLBT Jews (Keshet Ga'avah) offers links to worldwide Jewish GLBT organizations. PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays): the national organization with chapters across the USA. Meetings are a safe place for parents, families, and friends of GLBTQ people to share experiences and to support each other. 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 Hebrew. Bat Kol is an Israeli support group for Orthodox Lesbians. Website in Hebrew, click upper left for English. Havruta is an organization serving Orthodox and traditional gay Jews in Israel. Monthly meetings, frequently updated website (primarily a Hebrew website; English here). Keshet is a grassroots organization dedicated to creating a fully inclusive Jewish community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews in the Greater Boston area and across the country; offering resources, training, and technical assistance for creating change in Jewish communities. In London, contact GLON (Gay and Lesbian Orthodox Network), a support and social network for Orthodox gays and lesbians. Contact by e-mail at glon_uk@yahoo.com. Culture, Lifestyle, and Further Reading A Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews of Homosexual Orientation in the Community, drafted and signed by a number of Orthodox rabbis and educators. July 2010. Articles written by LGBT students at Yeshiva University:
Here is an article covering of the historic 2009 gay panel at YU. You can a blogger's report on the panel here. Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires. An Anthology of personal writings edited by Miryam Kabakov, published in 2010. 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.) Mourning and Celebration by K. David Brody, an award-winning novel on a Jewish/gay theme about life as it night have been, had the author been born as a gay Jew in his grandfather's shtetl. "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. Health and Hotlines 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: Addiction Help: Rates of drug abuse and addiction in the LGBTQ community are disturbingly higher than those of some other groups. Discrimination, societal pressures and co-occurring disorders are just a few potential triggers for drug abuse in this population. For assistance and resources, try this website. Trevor Project Helpline: GLBT Youth Support
Line, a 24/7 crisis hotline for people under 25: Want us to add a link? Or are any of these links not working for you? Please let us know by emailing glydsa.list@gmail.com.
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