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Shunning, Shaming, Renaming

By Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
October 17, 2013
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For the past 11 years, I have been shunned. Not socially rejected. Shunned. By what used to be my synagogue community. For falling in love with my partner. For my partner falling in love with me. He was serving as…

By Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
October 11, 2013
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[Trigger warnings for sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, shunning, shame.] Shame is not something that most of us want to hear about. Many of us will listen to stories of any other kind of horror: sexual abuse, physical assault,…