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  Chaim Levin on Jewish Orthodoxy and Homosexuality

  December 5, 2012 / Faith Complex

  Last year, Crown Heights native Chaim Levin participated in making an It Gets Better video for gay Orthodox Jews. He was subsequently pilloried for perceived “self-indulgence.” In response, Levin authored his own piece detailing his struggles with reconciling his religious upbringing and homosexuality. Chaim Levin kindly agreed to travel down to Washington, DC in order to participate in Faith Complex. In this episode with Jacques Berlinerblau, he discusses the challenges facing LGBTQ youth in the Orthodox community, the controversial JONAH [...]

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  Rabba Sara Hurwitz on Women and Orthodox Judaism

  April 28, 2011 / Faith Complex

  Sara Hurwitz’s appointment to the position of Rabba by Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in 2010 touched off a storm of controversy in the Orthodox Jewish community. Rabba Hurwitz is the first such female spiritual leader to hold the newly-created title, though she argues that women have occupied comparable roles throughout Jewish history. As Rabba, she is able to fulfill many of the functions of a traditional rabbi, including speaking from the pulpit and hearing questions [...]

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  Gary Rosenblatt on Orthodoxy, Abuse, and Ethics

  December 12, 2010 / Faith Complex

  In the summer of 2000, The Jewish Week, with Gary Rosenblatt at its helm, ran an exposé on the sexual abuse of a number of Orthodox teenagers over several decades by Rabbi Baruch Lanner, who, as regional director of the Orthodox Union’s National Conference of Synagogue Youth, was a charismatic leader and prominent community member. The day after the publication of Rosenblatt’s investigation, which alleged that Lanner’s superiors knew of his proclivities but took no action to curtail them, Lanner [...]

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