On Yom Kippur, over thirty people gathered during the break between Musaf and Mincha to discuss LGBTQ youth homelessness and the Ne’ilah liturgy—the closing gates. “Be for them a shelter, and rescue them from terror, Seal them for honor and joy, at the hour of the locking.”
The discussion was lively and reflected the work that CBST has been doing around this issue—including the Mutlifaith Martin Luther King Jr. service we had this past year, Rabbi Kleinbaum serving on Mayor Bloomberg’s Commission on LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth, and most recently, the Koleinu action team’s decision to develop a campaign to ...
