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Nachamu Ami: July 2013
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. The requisite post about Shabbat Nachamu. I've been trying to write a post about remembering my love and I don't know what to write. Do I write that I am still devastated by her loss on a daily basis? Do I write that I'm terrified that Mr. Boy will meet the same demise she did? Do I write that thirteen years is long enough for someone to become responsible, and I can see it in her fourteen-year-old brother? Has been that part is under our c...
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Nachamu Ami: December 2013
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. How the URJ Biennial exacerbated my pet peeves with the Reform Movement. Watching the videos from the Biennial also made me aware of the ideological distance between myself and the Reform Movement, even as there are more and more Reform Jews whose personal observance is traditionally radical rather than rebellious. I felt alienated from the spectacle of pride in a Movement in various ways. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Nachamu Ami: June 2014
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. How The Religious Institute Aims to Improve the Lives of Religious Bisexuals. Today releases a book-length guide which will improve the experience of bisexual folk in religious communities. The first resource of its kind, Bisexuality: Making the Invisible Visible in Faith Communities. Which, incidentally, gets quoted in the book (props to friend and fellow University of Chicago Alum). Imagine the following situations in your faith community:.
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Nachamu Ami: May 2013
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. Secular Jews and Religious Jews - Critique of Rabbi Eric Yoffie's Huffington Post Article. I was going to excoriate Rabbi Eric Yoffie for his comments about secular Jews in the attached article, but I won't. Inspired by my friend Chana, who writes at The Merely Real. יש יותר מדרך אחד להיות יהודי. Life of the Mind and Care of the Body. Reform Judaism and Obligation(s). Of honoring my father and mother even when I don't find the practice mean...
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Nachamu Ami: How The Religious Institute Aims to Improve the Lives of Religious Bisexuals
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. How The Religious Institute Aims to Improve the Lives of Religious Bisexuals. Today releases a book-length guide which will improve the experience of bisexual folk in religious communities. The first resource of its kind, Bisexuality: Making the Invisible Visible in Faith Communities. Which, incidentally, gets quoted in the book (props to friend and fellow University of Chicago Alum). Imagine the following situations in your faith community:.
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Nachamu Ami: February 2012
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. Becoming a Better Ally. I know I am still learning and I want help and advice as I strive to be a better ally. Update about an Alexander week. This week as well, I've seen people from within and without the queer community dismiss a friend's queer identity as invalid or at best a choice. And I have seen this friend's pain because of that and I am angry on her behalf. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Cat Flight of Fancy.
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Nachamu Ami: January 2014
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. The Menace of HIV/AIDS. I'm sick of correcting people about Mr. Boy dying. Oh, so he died of cancer? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm a relatively young queer Jew who strives to one day become an old man. Here I blog about life, love, politics, religion, and anything else that strikes my fancy. View my complete profile. Cat Flight of Fancy. Just A Big Guy With A Fun Sense Of Sin. Teaching in the D. This is Really Now.
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Nachamu Ami: July 2012
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. On Tisha B'av, both Temples were destroyed. Jews were expelled from England, France, Spain, and Portugal on the date. World War I started on the date. The rounding up of Jews into ghettos in Poland started on the date, and the deportation from the Warsaw ghetto also happened. Whether some of these dates were actually on Tisha B'av is unknown, but the commemoration becomes a container for our anguish. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm a relati...
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Nachamu Ami: November 2013
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. Transgender Day of Remembrance. Even though today has been horrible in terms of my current situtation, I wanted to take the time to remember those who have died because they are Transgender. Words of Wisdom from the Man I Married. Mr Boy, dying, has made a number of recommendations to me for life after him. 1 Don't shave with a straight razor. You might be tempted, dandy as you are, but you're too clumsy. 7 Read the psalms. 13 If people ask...
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Nachamu Ami: Peace is a Radical Pursuit: A Poem for Shabbat Jazon
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Take Comfort, My People. Experiences and Musings of a Queer Jew. Peace is a Radical Pursuit: A Poem for Shabbat Jazon. Peace is a radical pursuit. Not the desire of polite society. To avoid the drama and chaos. Of conflicting human instinct. The pundits cry out for the moderates. Where are the reasonable voices? They ask for the confrontation-averse. They call for the champions. Of maintaining the status quo. The wise who would rather. Continue to live in a world. Where occupation is sustainable. That th...
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