50% of Jewish Groups Have Gay-Friendly Policy by JTA
11/12/12 A new survey of Jewish communal organizations found that 50 percent
of them have taken significant steps to welcome gays and lesbians and
their families.

The Jewish Organization Equality Index provides
benchmarks for gauging and improving policies regarding gay, lesbian
bisexual and transgendered persons at North American Jewish communal
organizations. The index was released Sunday by the Human Rights
Campaign, an LGBT civil rights organization.
- Some 204 Jewish communal organizations, or about 10
percent of the organizations invited to take part, participated in the
survey.
- The index found that 98 percent of participating
membership-based organizations offer same-sex couples family
memberships; 90 percent use inclusive terms in their publicity
materials; and 73 percent have a written non-discrimination policy.
- The index also found that 75 percent of participating
organizations have not specifically recruited LGBT individuals to their
lay leadership board in the past three years, and that 79 percent have
not targeted the LGBT community in workplace recruitment efforts.
“We applaud the organizations that participated and are
taking important steps to foster LGBT inclusion, but we still have a
long way to go until LGBT Jews – indeed, all Jews – are embraced as full
and vital members of the Jewish family in every aspect of communal
life,” said Lynn Schusterman, a major Jewish philanthropist and one of
the index’s funders. “We have an opportunity to use these findings to
truly commit ourselves to the vital but challenging work of forging a
culture in which inclusivity, diversity and equality are paramount. The
question is: will we?”
Other funders include the Morningstar Foundation, Stuart Kurlander and an anonymous donor.
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