Sammy Kanter is a first-year Rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, currently studying in Jerusalem, Israel
Sammy Kanter
By Sammy Kanter
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Opinion I Was Kicked Out Of A Restaurant In Israel For Being Gay. It Made Me More Zionist Than Ever.
A year and a half ago, I was thrown out of a pizza shop in Jerusalem for being gay. I was celebrating the LGBTQ+ Pride weekend with three fellow rabbinical students, and wearing a T-shirt with rainbow colored lettering. After entering the pizza shop, an employee asked me if I was gay. I said yes….
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Community I Was Kicked Out Of A Jerusalem Pizza Shop For Being Who I Am
I grew up dreaming of the land of Israel. My family is both proudly Jewish and proudly American; we were raised to believe that America was the home where we lived, but that Israel was the place we could truly feel at home. I longed for an opportunity to visit and hopefully spend time living…
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