On November 13th, 2018, Ben Katz, a gay YU alumnus living in Israel, spoke to students on the Beren campus about the existence of LGBTQ Jews, and the resulting importance of ensuring that they have narratives they can tell in the first explicitly LGBTQ themed event after the 2009 “Being Gay in the Orthodox World” panel.
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