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Rabbi Laura Geller

The Sacred Narrative

This summer, I had a reunion with female cousins who are all my age. We live all around the country, so we hardly ever see each other.

In Times of Sorrow

\”I am sure,\” said Sinai Temple\’s Rabbi DavidWolpe in his Rosh Hashanah sermon, \”that in almost every pulpit inAmerica from whatever denomination rabbis are speaking about theterrible strife we are enduring — Jew against Jew, as well as Jewagainst Arab — in the Land of Israel.\”

The Torah of Our Lives

In Leviticus, male sexual relations are considered an abomination,punishable by death. \”A man shall not be with another man as if with a woman. It is an abomination,\” reads one passage. But, as with all things biblical and Jewish, the Torah passages are open to interpretation. And interpret they did last week at University Synagogue at a panel discussion on Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist views on homosexuality and bisexuality.

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