Educators Learn to Welcome GLBT Jews
Rachel Pomerance
JTA Wire Service
http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/educators_learn_to_welcome_glbt_jews/Let's say you get a memo from work, a Jewish organization, instructing you to leave home any part of your identity that doesn't conform to Jewish tradition. Sure, there's room for interpretation. But let's just say you're gay. Or lesbian. Or transsexual. And you're pretty sure you get the subtext. Then what?
This was one of the many scenarios posed to 35 Jewish educators in Atlanta this week at the first Hineini Education Project National Training Institute. The institute is a program of Keshet, a Boston-based group that advocates for the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jews within the community.
