A Conservative Challenge

Gay and lesbian rabbis and their supporters question the movement's don't-ask-don't-tell policy.

By Julie G Fax

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/a_conservative_challenge_20030117/

Rabbi Benay Lappe had been out of the closet for years. She appeared on "Oprah" and taught at a gay synagogue in New York, her colleagues and students at Milken Community High School in Los Angeles knew -- she even had a chapter included in an anthology titled "Lesbian Rabbis" (Rutgers University Press, 2001).

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