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May 7, 2025, 4:51 PM

Senior rabbis shouldn’t quit Yeshiva University over a gay club on campus

A pedestrian on the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City on August 30, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/File)

When YU leadership maligns these students, it shows how poorly it understands these young men, their commitment to Torah, and their need for support

May 23, 2024, 2:33 PM

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Lag B’Omer teaches the delights and dangers of Torah study

An Haredi man watches a bonfire celebrating the Lag B'Omer holiday in May 2013. (Flash90/ File)

How did Rabbi Akiva's students have such disrespect for each other that they died for their arrogance? Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's tale holds the key

Apr 27, 2023, 6:02 PM

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Am I an abomination? An Orthodox publisher speaks to gay teens

LGBTQ youth need much more support than Koren's new Leviticus commentary offers, but its careful effort is a major improvement

Sep 16, 2022, 6:14 PM

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Yeshiva University should embrace its own visionary ideals

A poster advertises an LGBTQ event at Yeshiva University, December 15, 2020. (courtesy, Yeshiva University student organizers)

YU should support the LGBTQ student club simply by dint of the 5 key principles stated in its 'Core Torah Ideals': truth, life, humanity, compassion, and Zion

Mar 14, 2022, 2:48 PM

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Between the hidden and the revealed: Purim as a Jewish National Coming Out Day

Reading of Megillat Esther during the holiday of Purim, at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, on March 9, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

The Esther story celebrates the outing of nearly every one of its characters, assuring LGBTQ youth that the Jewish tradition recognizes their experience

Jul 1, 2021, 2:39 AM

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Envisioning a gay future

Still from the documentary film, 'Marry Me However' (courtesy Go2Films)

What happens when all the good futures are straight and you are not? A new film helps Orthodoxy take the next step

Dec 7, 2018, 12:01 AM

Rebooting Hanukkah

The meaning of the holiday changes -- and that might even be the meaning of the holiday

Aug 9, 2017, 3:48 PM

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Homosexuality and the human condition

Rabbi Shlomi Riskin’s daring empathy places him at the forefront of shifting Orthodox views on what it means to be gay

Jul 9, 2017, 3:40 PM

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Rabbi Dweck dared to open his heart and mind

Rabbi Joseph Dweck dared to open his heart and mind on homosexuality, while staying faithful to Jewish law

Jul 31, 2015, 11:23 AM

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We march despite all the Schlissels

The Jerusalem Pride Parade is an antidote to the needless shame that Gay people have had to endure

About Me

Bio: Rabbi Steven Greenberg is the author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) for which he won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought in 2005. Rabbi Greenberg is presently the Founding Director of Eshel, an Orthodox LGBTQ+ community support, education and advocacy organization and lives with his partner, Steven Goldstein, and daughter, Amalia, in Boston.