Rabbi Mike Moskowitz is the Scholar-in-Residence for Trans and Queer Jewish Studies at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.
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Community 7 Ways Straight Jews Can Become Better LGBTQ Allies
Serving the largest LGBTQ synagogue in the world, as two straight rabbis, makes us a little queer. Not because our jobs place us deep in the LGBTQ community, but because here, we are the exception; and being different, in this sense, makes us…queer. As we prepare for NYC Pride on Sunday, June 24, we wanted…
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Community Why On Earth Are Orthodox Jews Opposing The Child Victims Act?
While learning in the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, my study partner and I attended a lecture from the great Jewish thinker, Rabbi Moshe Shapiro. Later that week, we saw him at the Western Wall praying with the sunrise. My friend asked him a question on the lecture he had given earlier in the week. Rabbi…
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Community In Lakewood, Sometimes Corruption And Greed Get In The Way Of The Torah
Since I became observant in high school, I’ve been asked, “How can religious people act that way?” by non-Orthodox friends and family more than I would like to remember — and they are asking a good question. I have had the privilege of spending the decade after high school in full-time learning in two of…
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