"We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender."

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Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

Jay Michaelson

#Teaching Quotes #Gay Quotes #Jewish Tradition Quotes

“Time is purple / Just before night.”
“Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.”

Source : Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.82, Anchor
“No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!”
“The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.”
“An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.”
“It's maybe every third person now (who calls out 'Norm!' when they see me). It used to be every other person. It's faded a bit, but not too much. They're always going to remember me that way. I decided a long time ago that if I'm going to let this make me crazy, I'm going to be certifiable, so I just roll with it.”
“There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.”

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