They also serve:  Rabbis’ spouses prove as diverse as roles they fill

By Danielle Berrin
Published on September 11, 2008

For as long as rabbis have been arguing Talmud, their wives have been at home preparing Shabbat dinner. Yet that image, along with expectations for clergy spouses, has evolved. For one, they're no longer all women. They're no longer always hovering in the background. And they're not always different genders.

Photo: Rabbi Brian, Rabbi Deborah and Heshel Schuldenfrei

‘Wagging’: My Story as Gay Jewish Male

By Eric Gordon
Published on May 11, 2006

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

By Rabbi Laura Geller
Published on October 9, 1997

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.