Margie Klein is a grassroots organizer and future rabbi dedicated to building the Jewish social justice movement. Currently in her final year at Hebrew College Rabbinical School, she is the director of the Moishe Kavod house. She ran the Righteous Indignation Organizing Project in 2008, and Project Democracy in 2004. In 2010, she was a semifinalist for the Jewish Community Heroes award.
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz’s new book, Jewish Ethics and Social Justice is a must-read for Orthodox Jews interested in social justice. Unfortunately, there aren’t many of them — yet. But liberal Jews should read it too.
Religion
We all know the problems of Leviticus 18 for LGBTQ Jews. Here, Margie Klein shows that Talmud provides a Jewish theology against homophobic bullying.
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