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YHIVA UNIVERSY LEFT MOURNG AFTER BELOVED GAY ALUMN DI BY SUICI
Weiss said durg the logy they relled havg “a nversatn wh a gay iend about what felt like to be queer the Orthodox world” for the first time wh Siegel, a classmate at YU, the Morn Orthodox flagship uptown Manhattan.
Many believe — based on their nversatns wh Siegel, his social media posts and their own experienc — that Siegel had nsired that there may have been no place for him as a gay man the Orthodox muny where he grew up and attend llege. In an Instagram post om March that has circulated wily after his ath, he wrote about how the word “abomatn” a Torah portn brought up trma for him as a gay man wh the Orthodox muny. “Acrdg to that trma, my very EXISTENCE as a gay, Jewish, Male was an abomatn, ” Siegal wrote.
He died a month later, on the eve of the Shabbat when the weekly Torah portn clus the Jewish legal prohibn on homosexual terurse, llg an “abomatn. Feldman told the New York Jewish Week over the phone that “even by rcg this story to a one-dimensnal story of a guy who was gay, who mted suici, we’re actually dog a disservice to gay people. “The storyle of this particular se is an openly gay person who had wonrful relatnships wh the entire Orthodox muny, cludg Haredi Orthodox lears, ” Feldman said.