A Prayer Book for Gay Jews

Summary


Not long ago, "Siddur B'chol L'vavcha," a prayer book (siddur) for gay Jews, arrived at my office.

The blue cloth volume had its start in 1981 as a collection of typewritten pages with Hebrew lettering cut and pasted between the English text. It grew out of the life of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, an 800-member gay synagogue near Manhattan's Chelsea district.

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A Prayer Book for Gay Jews

During the intervening years, massive shifts occurred among American homosexuals, including the AIDS crisis, and the changes are reflected in a recent edition of the siddur, pu...

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