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Transgender Jews get a boost from advocate’s new book

Started by Shana A, December 10, 2010, 08:32:59 AM

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December 10, 2010, 08:32:59 AM
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Transgender Jews get a boost from advocate's new book
by alexandra j. wall, correspondent

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/60217/transgender-jews-get-a-boost-from-advocates-new-book/

As a transgender Jew by choice, it's not surprising that Noach Dzmura is interested in fringe Judaism.

And given his prolific résumé (Dzmura was the 2006 winner of the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation's prestigious Haas-Koshland Memorial Award), it's also not surprising that he is the editor of the newly published anthology, "Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community." A mechitza is the barrier that separates men and women in Orthodox synagogues.

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So when putting the book together, "I thought of all the stuff I would like to have seen in a book as a Jewish transgender person," Dzmura said.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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