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Q: Did your Jewish upbringing influence your path toward human-rights work?
A: I grew up in a predominantly Christian community. My upbringing was
secular, but culturally Jewish. I’m very proud that my introduction to
human rights came through my own search for meaning in my Jewish identity.Growing up where I did, and learning that I was somehow “other”, I needed to understand what it meant to be Jewish. Other eight-year-olds were reading teen-romance novels; I was studying the Holocaust. I think I
learned how to be an LGBT activist through my Jewishness.
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https://forward.com/opinion/166075/an-imperfect-jew-and-lgbt-leader/>
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https://archive.ph/2Bjvl>
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