Comments on: New Issue! http://www.kolhamevaser.com/2009/02/new-issue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-issue The Jewish Thought Magazine of the Yeshiva University Student Body Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Beth http://www.kolhamevaser.com/2009/02/new-issue/#comment-51872 Beth Thu, 14 May 2009 20:58:44 +0000 http://www.kolhamevaser.com/?p=64#comment-51872 In response to the article you ran by Steve Greenberg, I think that in the name of full disclosure, your readers should also be made aware of the article Greenberg wrote trying to turn intermarriage into an accepted mainstream practice. http://www.clal.org/ss43.html He did so by distorting the halakhic category of "ger toshav". While I applaud the call he issued in your article for tolerance and shuls that will not maltreat gays and lesbians, I wish it'd come from a different source. Quite frankly, the source of the message degrades the message itself. In response to the article you ran by Steve Greenberg, I think that in the name of full disclosure, your readers should also be made aware of the article Greenberg wrote trying to turn intermarriage into an accepted mainstream practice.

http://www.clal.org/ss43.html

He did so by distorting the halakhic category of “ger toshav”. While I applaud the call he issued in your article for tolerance and shuls that will not maltreat gays and lesbians, I wish it’d come from a different source. Quite frankly, the source of the message degrades the message itself.

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