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Dr. Gillian Steinberg is an English teacher at SAR High School, and she is also a talented writing coach (https://www.teachingwritingbetter.com/about). She wrote an important article about the use of metaphors in this area of communal discourse for Machon Si’ach (https://www.machonsiach.org/inside-the-conversation/2020/6/15/the-use-of-metaphors-in-discussing-homosexuality). In addition, see here for the paper by Rabbi Ethan Tucker on handedness to which Dr. Steinberg refers: https://www.hadar.org/torah-resource/uniformity-and-diversity-left-handedness-and-halakhah

Music: Batya Levine

Editor and Producer: Jude Ephson

In order to understand any community, it is important to appreciate a basic timeline of development. Dr. Kathy Peiss is a leading scholar in this field and helps us to understand the history of the gay community in America. (bio: https://bit.ly/3HTKXUi)

Resources

To get a sense of the way in which things have changed, here are a few links to help give some color to the communal conversation in the 1960’s:

-Time Magazine 1/21/61 (https://time.com/vault/issue/1966-01-21/page/52/)

-The Homosexuals Documentary, CBS News, Youtube (https://cbsn.ws/42kQ7B3)

-Wiki, The Homosexuals (https://bit.ly/41kwNCr)

-Paul Welch, “Homosexuality in America,” Life, June 26, 1964, pp. 66-80. An article famous for making urban gay life visible to a national audience, with stereotypical popular and scientific views of the dangers of homosexuality. (https://bit.ly/42lF8Y4)

The Stonewall riots in 1969 were an important turning point for the Gay community in America. There was a major shift from the counter-cultural community of the 1970’s and 1980’s as a result of the AIDS crisis and what is known as the lesbian baby-boom. The political activism of the gay community turned its eyes toward same-sex marriage.

-In 1989, Andrew Sullivan wrote, “Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage,” in The New Republic, August 28, 1989. This piece is considered the first article to argue for gay marriage published in a mainstream publication. (https://newrepublic.com/article/79054/here-comes-the-groom)

To access the materials referred to in the introduction, see this link. (https://bit.ly/3VQ6Vxt)

Music: Batya Levine

Editor: Jude Ephson

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More details can be found at: https://www.yeshivatmaharat.org/podcast-details

In this episode, Miriam Lorie discusses the challenge zone that she encounters when she runs, and how she reframes her connection with God. Looking to God as her coach, as she feels his support and pushes forward in facing all of life’s challenges.

This episode was produced by Rabba Dina Brawer (‘18), featuring vocals by Rabbanit Leah Sarna (‘18). With musical accompaniment, editing and sound engineering by Ari Oshinsky.

In this episode, Miriam Lorie discusses the challenge zone that she encounters when she runs, and how she reframes her connection with God. Looking to God as her coach, as she feels his support and pushes forward in facing all of life’s challenges.

This episode was produced by Rabba Dina Brawer (‘18), featuring vocals by Rabbanit Leah Sarna (‘18). With musical accompaniment, editing and sound engineering by Ari Oshinsky.

Rabba Dina Brawer shares her Elul ritual journey of return, the moments where she finds Gd most accessible, and symbolically releases the events of the last year at the sea.

This episode was produced by Rabba Dina Brawer (‘18), featuring vocals by Rabbanit Leah Sarna (‘18). With musical accompaniment, editing and sound engineering by Ari Oshinsky.