TheJewishChannelTJC | TJC's Up Close Interviews: Rabbi Ayelet Cohen and Eve Tushnet @TheJewishChannelTJC | Uploaded March 2015 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
newsdesk.tjctv.com/2015/03/up-close-rabbi-ayelet-cohen-and-eve-tushnet Being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender can seem to be at odds with practicing organized religion, but that's not necessarily so for the authors on this week's episode of Up Close. Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, the former assistant rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), details the history of the country's first LGBT synagogue in "Changing Lives, Making History: Congregation Beit Simchat Torah"; and author Eve Tushnet, a devout Catholic who was born Jewish and is also a lesbian, attempts to reconcile her faith and her sexuality in "Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith."
newsdesk.tjctv.com/2015/03/up-close-rabbi-ayelet-cohen-and-eve-tushnet Being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender can seem to be at odds with practicing organized religion, but that's not necessarily so for the authors on this week's episode of Up Close. Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, the former assistant rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), details the history of the country's first LGBT synagogue in "Changing Lives, Making History: Congregation Beit Simchat Torah"; and author Eve Tushnet, a devout Catholic who was born Jewish and is also a lesbian, attempts to reconcile her faith and her sexuality in "Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith."
