Status Updates From Tablets Shattered: The End ...

I belong to an independent congregation that blends conservative liturgy with reconstructionist practice. Membership is growing, not withering away as Leifer insists over and over. I don’t know if I’m even offended at his characterization of my temple as soon to be obsolete and my faith practice as “thin and shallow.” Instead, his mischaracterization of me and my community confirms his own ignorance.

It’s really something that Leifer interviews LGBTQ rabbis, compares their faith practice and congregations to “people doing yoga” or “Judaism vs burning man”; then valorizes Haredi communities, where LGBTQ people are closeted lest they be sent to conversion therapy—-which he notes in this book.