After an ultra-Orthodox upbrgg and yhiva tn, Jayson Ltman has bee a lear the gay Jewish muny
Contents:
- MEET THE KG OF NEW YORK’S GAY JEWISH NIGHTLIFE
- THE GAY ORTHODOX UNRGROUND
- FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
- MYAN REVIEW – TENR G-OF-AGE TALE OF A GAY JEWISH NEW YORKER
- GAY JEWS CELEBRATE ‘HIGH HOMODAYS’ NEW YORK
- “ARE THERE GAY JEWS?”
MEET THE KG OF NEW YORK’S GAY JEWISH NIGHTLIFE
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After an ultra-Orthodox upbrgg and yhiva tn, Jayson Ltman has bee a lear the gay Jewish muny. Bily navigatg this scene — at tim a headset so he uld ordate the chaos — was Jayson Ltman, the eveng’s host and one of the most dynamic figur New York’s gay Jewish muny.
THE GAY ORTHODOX UNRGROUND
Over 500 gay Jews (and those who love them) partied and chugged Manischewz at Serlic, the Passover Party, prented by Hebro. * gay jews nyc *
Wh nearly 1, 000 partygoers this past December — most om New York, but others travelg om Boston, Philalphia and Washgton — the Jewbilee has bee a major event on the regn’s gay Jewish lendar, as well as a way for revelers to nnect often-separate parts of their inty.
FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM
The biggt party for gay Jews (and those who love them) was as wild as ever. * gay jews nyc *
Wh nearly 1, 000 partygoers this past December -- most om New York, but others travelg om Boston, Philalphia and Washgton -- the Jewbilee has bee a major event on the regn’s gay Jewish lendar. “The people at my parti are what I ll cultural or urban gay Jews, ” says Ltman, 34, a former yhiva boy who spent two years after high school studyg Israel. Even after tellg his parents at 22, he grappled wh the prospect of what he lls “livg gay, ” and then for half a “cid that I didn’t want to be gay” after all.
MYAN REVIEW – TENR G-OF-AGE TALE OF A GAY JEWISH NEW YORKER
Haaretz Interviews Five Jews — Includg the Rabbi of a ‘Gay Synagogue,’ a Transgenr Activist and the Head of the Rsian-speakg Communy — to Fd Out What Has Improved or Worsened Sce June 1969, Includg Their Standg the Jewish Communy * gay jews nyc *
“Gog to a gay-affirmg therapist jt wasn’t an optn at that pot, ” he adds. I never would have been able to go om beg really relig to beg gay” whout a amework that alt wh both.
Like practilly everythg else New York, his turn toward gay Jewish learship hged partly on real tate. Instead of droppg the ia, he ntacted Vlada, a gay bar Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood that was perfectly happy to sell drks and play mic on what would otherwise have been a silent night.
In the years sce, Ltman — whose day job is fance — has found He’bro, a nightlife anizatn that hosts three gay Jewish parti an average year. (The next, a Purim celebratn he’s llg “Homotashen, ” will take place March 10 at Manhattan’s Marime Hotel.
GAY JEWS CELEBRATE ‘HIGH HOMODAYS’ NEW YORK
To addrs the subject of homosexualy and Judaism, we spoke to a gay Jew and had the followg exchange: * gay jews nyc *
Some gay partygoers have also exprsed disfort at the more outré elements, but that hasn’t moved Ltman to alter the ftivi. While he looks forward to highlightg Israel’s posive rerd on gay rights — pecially parison to s neighbors’ — he says he hated about formg the new anizatn bee of the issue’s divisivens.
“ARE THERE GAY JEWS?”
“We are supposed to agree, ” he says of the gay muny, referrg to marriage equaly and other issu.