Rabbi's Dvar/Tak
Same-gender marriage/commitment
Dayenu Recommended Reading List
A number of the links below will take you to Amazon.com and will open in a
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Parents Matter, Parents' Relationships with Lesbian Daughters
and Gay Sons, Ann Muller (The Naiad Press Inc, USA. 1987)
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The Dance of Intimacy, A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of
Change in KeyRelationships, Harriet Goldhor Lerner PhD (Perennial Library,
Harper & Row Publishers Inc, NY, USA. 1990)
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Intimacy between Men, How to find and Keep Gay Love
Relationships, John H Driggs MSW & Stephen E Finn PhD (A Plume Book,
Penguin Books, NY, USA. 1991)
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Coming Out, An Act of Love, An Inspiring Call to Action for Gay
Men, Lesbians, and those who care, Rob Eichberg PhD (A Plume Book, Penguin
Books, NY USA. October 1991)
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Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories, Lawrence Schimel
(Sherman Asher Publishing, USA. July/August 2002)
Rabbinic, Academic (and Personal) perspectives on Homosexuality and
Judaism:
- The Gay Question: Time for Modern
Orthodoxy to Take Off the Blindfold - November 2009
- Emanuel Synagogue's response to the GLBT
centre shootings in Tel Aviv - August 2009
- Danny died today, a tribute to Danny, a
gay Chasidic Jew.
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Homosexuality and Religion, Richard Hasbany PhD (Harrington
Park Press, NY & London. 1989)
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Jewish Explorations of Sexuality, Jonathan Magonet
(Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK. 1995)
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Kulanu (All of Us) A Program for Congregations Implementing Gay
and Lesbian Inclusion, Beryl A. Chernick (UAHC Press, USA. 1996)
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Like Bread on the Seder Plate, Rebecca T Alpert (Columbia
University Press. November 1998)
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Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, Rebecca T Alpert, Sue
Levi Elwell, Shirley Idelson (Rutgers University Press, NJ USA. September 2001)
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Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, (Between Men –
Between Women), Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini (Columbia
University Press. November 2003)
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Wrestling with God and Men, Homosexuality in the Jewish
Tradition, Rabbi Steven Greenberg (University of Wisconsin Press, USA. 15th
February 2004)
On Being Gay or Lesbian and Jewish
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Twice Blessed, On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish, Christie
Balka and Andy Rose (Beacon Press, Boston, USA. 1989)
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Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, Evelyn Torton Beck
(Beacon Press, Boston, USA. 1989)
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A Gay Synagogue in New York, Moshe Shokeid (Columbia
University Press, NY, USA. 1995)
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Journeys & Arrivals, on being Gay and Jewish, Lev
Raphael (Faber and Faber, Boston & London. 1996)
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An Underground Life, Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi
Berlin,Gad Beck (The University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin USA &
London, England. 1999)
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Independence Park, The Lives of Gay Men in Israel, Amir
Sumakai Fink and Jacob Press, (Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
USA. 1999) (in the series
Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences, edited by
Daniel Boyarin et al.)
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Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians talk about Sexuality, Feminism,
Judaism and their Lives, Tracy Moore (Cassell Academic, London, UK. March
1999)
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Between Sodom and Eden, A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing
Israel, Lee Walzer (Columbia University Press, NY, USA. 2000)
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Queer Jews, David Shneer and Caryn Avi (Routledge.
September 2002)
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Mentsh, On Being Jewish and Queer, Angela Brown (Alyson
Books, Los Angeles, California, USA. August 2004)
Selected Gay or Lesbian Jewish Fiction
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The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology, Melanie
Kaye/Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz (Beacon Press, Boston, USA. 1989)
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Dancing on Tisha B'Av, Lev Raphael (Stonewall Inn Editions,
St Martin's Press, NY, USA. 1990)
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Hot Chicken Wings, Jyl Lynn Felman (Aunt Lute Book Co, SF,
USA. 1992)
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The Dyke and the Dybbuk, E Galford (Virago Press, London,
UK. 1993)
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The Far Euphrates, Aryeh Lev Stollman (Riverhead Books, NY,
USA. 1997)
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The Same Embrace, Michael Lowenthal (A Plume Book, Penguin
Books, NY, USA. 1999)
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Kosher Meat, Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher Publishing,
Santa Fe, NM, USA. 2000)
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The Limits of Pleasure, Daniel M Jaffe (Harrington Park
Press Inc, NY USA & London UK. January 2002)
Selected Readings from a Traditional Jewish view of Sexuality per se (not
gay and lesbian specific, and not necessarily positive towards homosexuality)
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People of the Body, Jews and Judaism from an Embodied
Perspective, Howard Eilberg-Schwartz (State University of New York Press,
NY, USA. 1992)
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Carnal Israel, Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, Daniel
Boyarin (University of California Press, USA and UK. 1993)
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Sex Ethics in the Writings of Moses Maimonides, Fred Rosner
(Jason Aronson Inc, NJ, USA. 1994)
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Heavenly Sex, Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition, Dr Ruth
Westheimer and Jonathan Mark (The Continuum Publishing Co, NY, USA. 1995)
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Eros and the Jews, From Biblical Israel to Contemporary
America, David Biale (University of California Press, USA and UK. 1997)
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The Harlot by the Side of the Road, Forbidden Tales of the
Bible, Jonathan Kirsch (The Ballantine Publishing Group, Random House Inc,
NY, USA. 1997)
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Kosher Sex, Shmuley Boteach (Main Street Books, Doubleday,
Random House Inc, NY, USA. January 2000)
Selected Gay and Lesbian Studies (History, Sociology etc.)
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Homosexual, Oppression and Liberation, Dennis Altman (Angus
& Robertson Publishers Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. 1972)
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, Gay People
in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth
Century, John Boswell (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA and
London. 1980)
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Theories of Homosexuality, Martin Dannecker (Gay Men's
Press, London. 1981)
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The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality, John Hart and
Diane Richardson (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 1981)
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The Pink Triangle, The Nazi War against Homosexuals,
Richard Plant (An Owl Book, A New Republic Book, Henry Holt & Co Inc, NY,
USA. 1986)
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The Construction of Homosexuality, David F Greenberg (The
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA and London, UK. 1988)
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The Men with the Pink Triangle, Heinz Heger (GMP
Publishers, London. 1989)
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Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality? Essays from the
international scientific conference on lesbian and gay studies, Dennis
Altman et al (GMP Publishers, London and Uitgeverij An Dekker/Schorer,
Amsterdam. 1989)
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Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany
1933-1945, Gunter Grau and Claudia Schoppmann (Continuum International
Publishing Group. November 1994)