An article by Hannah Dreyfus in the New York Jewish Week, distributed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, dated 20 January 2016, reporting on a private support network for LGBTQ individuals raised in the Chabad-Lubavitch community. It quotes members describing being humiliated, rejected and blacklisted after coming out, one recounting expulsion from a yeshiva and slurs directed at him, and states homophobia remains widespread and the topic still largely taboo in Hasidic circles. A Chabad spokesman declined to comment for the article, and it documents no official pathway for an openly LGBTQ individual to participate fully in Chabad communal life.
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A named-byline article from a Jewish community newspaper distributed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, an established wire service for Jewish community reporting; not a Chabad publication, and Chabad declined comment when approached by the reporter, so the underlying religious-law prohibition is reported here only as this article states Chabad's own position, not read directly from a Chabad-authored page. NotesCited for Chabad-Lubavitch's sexuality-position.
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PublisherNew York Jewish Week / Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://www.jta.org/2016/01/20/ny/secret-lgbtq-chabad-group-fills-void
Source Typejournalism
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