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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
There has been much discussion lately in the Jewish community and the Jewish blogosphere about a recent event at YU entitled “Being Gay In The Orthodox World: A Conversation with Members of the YU Community” which was sponsored by the YU Tolerance Club and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. The panel featured one current YU student and three former YU students all of whom are gay, as well as Rabbi Yosef Blau and Dr. David Pelcovitz. Here are some useful links to for those who want to catch up on the discussion.
Video segments of the panel can be found here.
A transcript from an attendee can be found here.
Some Roshei Yeshiva felt the event should not have taken place. You can listen to one reaction here (audio). A statement from several Roshei Yeshiva was posted in YU, the text of which can be found in this YU Commentator article.
After the reactions of the Roshei Yeshiva, President Richard Joel and Rabbi Yona Reiss, Menahel of RIETS, released this statement.
Here are some thoughtful blog posts regarding the event: here and here, as well as
here, here, and here.
Actually, the following letter from an anonymous gay student was published in Hamevaser (a magazine of Jewish thought) a number of months before this event at YU.
An intereseting conversation is also taking place as to whether this event signals a new era in Orthodoxy. The conversation was started by Dr. Alan Brill before this event took place with this post where he asks if we are in a post-Orthodoxy phase. This question was related to this event by Gil Student with this post, which was followed up by this post.
- Rabbi Chaim Poupko
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