Well, it turns out that the world-infamous Muslim Community Center which has been proposed for Lower Manhattan is already active -- in fact, several queer Jews entered the site, discussed Torah with Muslims and Christians, and left with smiles on their faces!

I had the honor of representing CBST as a teacher at an interfaith text study organized by our partners at Religious Freedom USA .  About thirty people--including lay leaders of the Muslim congregation that has prayed in the Park51  building for years--gathered in small groups studying texts from Torah and midrash, the Koran, and the ...