Slightly un-orthodox: silent no longer: religious gay men and lesbians start speaking out.(ISRAEL)
American Prospect, The, January, 2006 by Wildman, Sarah
TOVA ROSENBERG (NOT HER REAL name) lives in Rosh Pina, a little hippie town in the Galilee region of Israel that overlooks the Hula Valley. She is pretty in an unadorned way--her long red hair is cut in a blunt straight style, her glasses are wire and speak to function over form, and her face is bare of makeup. She wears a zip-up sweatshirt and cargo pants, and she looks more like an American teen than a 26-year-old woman who has endured years of anxiety and bitterness.
Rosenberg is a lesbian from an Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem. Her parents were hozrei ...
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