MY
HOMO HOLIDAYS
For
the past decade, I've been going to the CBST
Yom Kippur services at the Javitz Center. CBST started as a gay
synagogue and gradually expanded to include every misfit imaginable.
Besides the LGTBQERSTUVWXYZ community, there are Black-White het
couples. Arab-Jew het couples. Atheists with tradition... and those
who hate the Pay-to-Pray
requirements of most synagogues. 3000+ people... all welcome... pay
only if you want.
I love CBST for Rabbi
Kleinbaum, the little female rabbi who wears pink sneakers
(favorite quote: I cannot believe in a God that requires you to
believe in God.) ... and gets in trouble because she has such
radical ideas as feeling sorry for the Palestinian children who were
killed in the Israeli genocide war of the early 21st
century.
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| CBST Members supporting the mosque |
They
are not perfect, however. Being Jewish
and gayish, there are a lot of rich members. That
means that some of their
“special events” are not exactly to my tastes.
I
wonder how much she's getting paid...
The
25-hour fast (No food. No Water/) starts at Sundown on Friday and
continues to Sundown on Saturday, where I join Elena at Jody's for
the BREAK FAST.
Then
it's on to Brooklyn, where my pal, Martin S has invited me to see his
homocore band LIMP
WRIST at the Brooklyn Bazaar. From fast to feast, I'd say:
Great
show, and the audience is younger, but a similar mix of genders and
preferences, to those who were at CBST.
To
top off the 2 days of Jew and Punk homotude is the subway ride back
to Manhattan. The poster on the wall?
One of those fake
BANK OF AMERICA RAINBOW PRIDE posters? Nope.
Just
this unintentional tribute to homotude: