Posted on 05/05/2022 5:15:54 PM PDT by Salman
(JTA) — Shira Berkowitz was building a career in Jewish camping when a camp told them not to return.
“It got around that I was that was queer, and that that wasn’t appropriate for me to be a program director for girls,” Berkowitz said. “And that was really harmful to my identity. I went back in the closet for a few years.”
Berkowitz’s career and personal identity recovered, and they went on to work at Camp Sabra, Missouri’s biggest Jewish overnight camp, which they described as far more accepting.
“But I was also very aware that there was almost no queer staff, except for myself and one or two other people,” Berkowitz said.
Now, Berkowitz is working to create a different kind of summer camp experience for children — and staff — who are LGBTQ. The senior director of public policy and advocacy at PROMO Missouri, an LGBTQ advocacy group, Berkowitz is one of multiple veterans of Jewish summer camps on the founding team of Camp Indigo Point, a new camp that caters to trans children at a time when many children who are gender non-conforming are facing fierce attacks by conservatives in their own communities.
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Some years ago I read a comment by someone who claims to have come from a German Jewish background, and he said most American Jews are from a Russian Jewish background, and as a consequence embraced socialist ideas which were popular in Russia.
He said German Jews were very market oriented and conservative, but so many of them were killed in the Holocaust that there aren't many of them compared to Russian Jews.
It is an interesting claim.
But never forget, the Orthodox Jews have long been on our side.
Munchhausen syndrome through proxy. Such parents need both mental evaluation and jail time.
No doubt having a Trans kid improves their street cred with their insane Leftist “friend”.
Yeah, it’s disgusting and should be criminal.
I speak only for the children. Their condition is as real as autism or Down syndrome. They didn’t choose it. They feel exactly like boy but look like girl from age 2 or before. This is not the fault of their parents. It would be horrible to have this condition. I do believe it is caused in utero during the very short period of hours / days when gender is being differentiated. Something went wrong.
I am very passionate about caring for kids with any special needs.
God made NO MISTAKES!! If any parents ENCOURAGE these fantasies, they will have to answer to God.
The article said this is NOT a Jewish camp.
George Takei was molested by a homosexual camp counselor, although he got in a little trouble for saying it was an introduction.
The headline is copied as is, and it's all Jews doing it.
My grandmother would say “Feh!”, a term meaning utter disgust..
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