Training educators, rabbis to welcome, affirm gay Jews

ClevelandJewishNews.com – By Marilyn H Karfeld – Senior Staff Reporter

At a Sunday morning religious-school class, a Jewish studies teacher casually asks a student about the high-school dance the previous night and whom he brought as his date.

In a class discussion about the Book of Genesis, a Hebrew teacher talks about how God created man, who needed a helpmate. So God created woman.

A Jewish youth-group leader informs newcomers that the boys’ bathroom is down the hallway to the right and the girls’ room is to the left.