Sep 9, 2012 | Eshel in the News
Suicide rates high for Orthodox homosexual youths Research shows 20% of LGBT sample attempted suicide, compared to 3.5% rate for general youth population. Suicide rates among Orthodox homosexual youth are dramatically higher than that of their heterosexual peers, research published last week showed. The research on suicide among all Israeli youth, conducted by Hannah Bar-Yosef, [more]
Jun 28, 2012 | Eshel in the News
Reconciling sexuality with religion One would be hard pressed to find instances of Orthodox Judaism and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) occupying the same sentence. Yet for the women whose stories appear in the anthology, "Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires," reconciling the two is a familiar task. After coming [more]
Dec 7, 2011 | Eshel in the News
Orthodox Mental Health Workers Seen Changing On Homosexuality Founder of gay Orthodox support group attends Nefesh conference while ‘reparative therapy’ group is absent. The founder of a support group for gay Orthodox youth participated last weekend in a conference hosted by the community’s association of mental health professionals, the only such advocate ever to do [more]
Dec 7, 2011 | Eshel in the News
At Orthodox mental health group’s forum, openly gay Jews get their say and some support HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (JTA) — The 15th annual conference of Nefesh International, an association of Orthodox mental health professionals, was a study in inclusion. Dr. Judith Guedelia, the director of Shaare Zedek Medical Center’s neuropsychology unit, became the first woman to [more]
Aug 30, 2011 | Eshel in the News
Finding God At the End of the Rainbow It’s not easy, knowing that a part of your identity, of who you are, has the potential to tear your family apart, that it could destroy your siblings’ chances of getting married, and that there’s a possibility that someone who you thought of as a friend could [more]
