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Taboo Torah Topics
Everything young adults always
wanted to ask about Judaism.
Stacy Gittleman
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hen looking for Jewish
guidance on sexuality, tat-
toos and other controver-
sial subjects, Millennials
need answers far beyond
what most received from
their Jewish education,
which often stopped at
age 13.
In recent years,
Judaism has grappled
with subjects that often
went untouched. In the
2001 film Trembling
before G-d, Orthodox Jews
asked the question: How
Rabbi Dan
do I continue to practice
my faith and stay within
my community if I am openly gay?
As Holocaust survivors live out
their final years, some second- and
third-generation survivors are doing
nearly the unthinkable of tattooing
their own bodies with the numbers
their elders received in the concentra-
tion camps. Is this an acceptable way
to remember the Holocaust? Is it OK
for Jews to tattoo themselves at all?
The questions of young adults that
may have not been addressed in their
formative years of Jewish education
will all be on the table as the Motor
City Moishe House teams up with
NEXTGen Detroit to offer "Taboo
Torah Topics," 7-9 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 13, at the Moishe House at 402
N. Washington Ave. in Royal Oak. For
more information, go to https://www.
facebook.com/NextGenD.
Dan Horwitz, associate rabbi of
Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy,
will be leading the discussion, and he
welcomes all to bring their questions.
A Jewish Renewal rabbi, Horwitz
has studied across all of Judaism's
major branches and, therefore, can
answer the same question from a
number of Jewish perspectives.
In past discussions such as this,
participants have asked Horwitz
questions about circumci-
sion and whether or not it
is a mitzvah to get drunk
on Purim.
There is never a lack
of questions. Horwitz
said that Millennials still
want to explore Judaism's
teachings but perhaps
became jaded by Hebrew
school because it was
"little kid Judaism:"
"There is a treasure
Horwitz
trove of grown-up Jewish
teachings that can add
value to their daily lives and provide
answers to tough questions, but many
have no idea it exists because they
stopped their formal Jewish learning
after their bar or bat mitzvah:' he
said.
Even those who studied Judaism
more extensively will attend the event
because they still have more ques-
tions.
Katie Wallace of Royal Oak attend-
ed Hillel Day School and was a Judaic
studies minor at the University of
Michigan. She plans to attend the
evening's event. She said she grew up
accepting whatever was taught to her,
but there are still more topics within
Judaism she would like to explore.
"Whenever I've wanted to learn
something, I've been able to learn
it:' Wallace said. "But whenever you
bring up a taboo topic, the response
from most teachers seems so pre-for-
mulated and automatic that, eventu-
ally, you leave the topic alone
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