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‘Wagging’: My Story as Gay Jewish Male

A couple of years ago, I heard about an oral history project for older gay men and women that resulted in a staged play. I didn\’t see it, but when Bob Baker, the adapter-director, sent out the call for a new cast, I signed up. We listened to each other\’s stories, wrote up the most telling ones and turned remembered conversations into dialogue. After nine months, out came a play.

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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