Avram Mlotek, Author at Public Seminar

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I’m an Orthodox rabbi who is going to start officiating LGBTQ weddings. Here’s why.

If we don’t, we risk further alienation and falling into an abyss of religious irrelevance by denying these couples their rightful place of belonging.

April 20, 2019 • by Avram Mlotek

A queer friend of mine from a haredi Orthodox background had posed a query publicly on social media. She had attended a conference on LGBTQ inclusion. There she learned a practice of certain Catholic priests who described going into gay bars in full clerical garb: They would sit in the ...

I’m an Orthodox rabbi who is going to start officiating LGBTQ weddings. Here’s why.

A rabbi rushes to Pittsburgh looking for ways to help and finds that he is one of many

November 4, 2018 • by Avram Mlotek

On Saturday night, my family danced the end of Shabbat away with song. It had been a full Shabbat: celebrating an upcoming marriage, a baby just birthed, welcoming guests, Jews and non-Jews who have never experienced the Jewish day of rest, around our table. Isolated from the outside world, our ...

Avram Mlotek

I’m an Orthodox rabbi who is going to start officiating LGBTQ weddings. Here’s why.

If we don’t, we risk further alienation and falling into an abyss of religious irrelevance by denying these couples their rightful place of belonging.

In a Tragedy Always Look for the Helpers

A rabbi rushes to Pittsburgh looking for ways to help and finds that he is one of many

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