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On conversion therapy, American law and Jewish law are moving in different directions

JL;DR SUMMARY Daphne Lazar Price discusses the divergence between American law and Jewish law regarding conversion therapy, particularly in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision protecting such practices as free speech. 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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Jewish LawFree SpeechCommunityHalachaInclusionLgbtq+Conversion TherapyU.S. Supreme CourtOrthodox RabbisU.S. Law

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"We also met with Orthodox rabbis across Toronto."
York, Ontario, Canada
"The painful divergence brings me back to my years at York University in Toronto in the early 1990s"

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