World AIDS Day is often a time of reflection on the many lives lost to the disease that has been challenging researchers and scientists for three decades. Much progress has been made in treatments and more is being made but there is no cure on the horizon. What can be said is that it is no longer a death sentence. It’s a treatable, manageable disease.
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A bat mitzvah for two
After finding a home at Temple Shalom, one lesbian couple has taken a spiritual plunge together, and it doesn’t involve saying “I do” It’s a bat mitzvah.”I think that a Jewish lesbian couple having a joint bat mitzvah is not the norm, and what we want to do very quietly is to show the community that it can be done,” says Sara Raymond, who had a joint bat mitzvah (known as a b’not mitzvah) with her partner, Neire Mercer, on November 19.
