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Unorthodox Position

Meet Washington's gay-friendly Orthodox rabbi
By James Kirchick | 7:00 AM Aug 20, 2009

When Zvi Bellin, a gay Washingtonian, heard that a vigil was being organized by members of the gay and Jewish communities in the Capitol to memorialize the victims of the Tel Aviv gay youth center shooting, he decided to invite Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld. Herzfeld, who leads the modern Orthodox Ohev Sholom synagogue in Shepherd ...