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Life for LGBT+ Students at Maimonides

by JOSH SCHOENBERG '19  This article was published in the January 2019 volume of Spectrum: the Maimonides School Student Newspaper  This is the first part in a series of 2 articles about the LGBT+ experience at Maimonides.  The Maimonides Upper School Handbook, as of September 6, 2018, contains a statement on page 12 about "students [more]

Call Me By My Name

GABRIEL KLAPHOLZ GUEST COLUMNIST AT YALE NEWS   Don’t make eye contact. Don’t make too much noise. Definitely don’t make it obvious that you’re eavesdropping on that couple’s conversation two seats down. New York City subway cars have an unspoken etiquette. The overarching trend? Anonymity. The most important rule of sitting in a silver train [more]

Confessions of an Orthodox mother and father of an LGBT child

December 6, 2018 Confessions of an Orthodox mother and father of an LGBT child Thank you so much for your compelling article about the experience of Orthodox parents of LGBT parents (“They just want to be regular people,” November 30). As longtime members of the Bergen County Orthodox community and parents of an LGBT child, [more]

They Just Want To Be Regular People

Jewish Standard By JOANNE PALMER   When you live in a close-knit community, you benefit from its warmth and support; you share its values and vocabulary and world-view; you are guided by its rules and guarded by its vigilance; you are nourished by its love. But sometimes it’s hard to be different, particularly if you are [more]