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Gay and Jewish in Brooklyn

by Amanda Julius Benjy Unger remembers sitting cross-legged on his therapist’s floor, waiting to be tapped on the head. Dressed in traditional Orthodox Jewish regalia, “the whole garb,” the 25 year-old was playing duck, duck, goose. The children’s game is one of several tactics used by Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, or JONAH, to...

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Jobless suffer despite employment rise

By Amanda Julius After losing her job in January, Esther Coleman became a statistic. She is now one of the 20,000 Americans who were laid off last month even as national unemployment dropped from 10 to 9.7 percent, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor today. As an updated report on unemployment...