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Michael Levine, founding member of NY’s pioneering LGBTQ synagogue and witness to the Stonewall riots, dies at 81

JL;DR SUMMARY Michael Levine, a key figure in the history of Jewish LGBTQ+ activism, passed away at the age of 81. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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New York CityJewish ActivismLgbtq+Urban PlanningCongregation Beit Simchat TorahStonewall RiotsGay Rights MovementSohoJewish InclusivityMichael Levine

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New York, United States
"Michael Levine, a founding member of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New Yorks influential LGBTQ+ synagogue, died on Tuesday at age 81."
Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines
"Friends and family speaking at his memorial service Thursday morning which was simulcast from Beit Simchat Torah in Midtown and from Santa Maria, the Philippines, where he and his husband moved last summer to be with extended family..."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Levine was born in May 1943 to Dora and Julius Levine. He and his older brother, Sheldon, grew up in a Modern Orthodox family in Crown Heights, Brooklyn before the Lubavitch rebbe arrived, he recounted in an oral history for the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network in 2021."
Evanston, Illinois, United States
"Rachel Weiss, a rabbi at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois, who knew Levine when she was an intern at CBST, shared in the live stream."

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