“The community is structured around the dominant religion, which is understandable. But one of the really big challenges for Jacob is if he’s going to choose to be a practicing Jew, he has to accept that extra workload and burden,” his mother said.
Jacob Feldon, a queer Jewish student who is about to be a senior at Logan High School, does his weekday morning prayer in Dry Canyon on Thursday, June 30, 2022. Tefillin, a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, is used by Feldon during his weekday morning prayer, which allows him to connect to God.He’s been working with an area hunter to get it, with hopes of thinning it into parchment.
“Queer Jews are nothing new,” Feldon said. “We’ve been around forever. We’ve been contributors to culture and to religious writing that has to do with our experiences. My own experience resonates with these figures from thousands of years ago.” “If you ask him a question, he will find a PDF or a book, and then he will memorize it and know everything,” she said. “He’s good material for a rabbi,”
“There was no malice behind that,” Tofel-Grehl said. “The community is structured around the dominant religion, which is understandable. But one of the really big challenges for Jacob is if he’s going to choose to be a practicing Jew, he has to accept that extra workload and burden.” “I had to take a much more active priority in my life than if I had lived in a big Jewish community,” he said. “And, for me, during the pandemic, when I had more time to myself and more time for introspection, I realized I wanted a deeper connection there, and I had to go looking for it.” “Honestly, I was less surprised by Jacob’s queer identity,” his mother said, “than I was by how devout he is to his religion.
“Things change and more affirming worlds are built based on viewing people as people, and understanding that me being queer is just one identity out of many that I hold,” Feldon said. “That entire identity cannot be reduced.”
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