Babs: I’m not snubbing Bush
Barbara Streisand denies to Page Six that her decision to bow out of the Israel 60 celebration next month in Jerusalem had anything to do with her antipathy toward another high-profile participant: President Bush...
Streisand's publicist, Dick Gutman, denied Bush had anything to do with her cancellation: "However she feels about our current president, that would not have precluded her attendance," he told us. "And, besides, it's a three-day event, so simultaneous participation would have been easily avoided." Streisand has long been a strident critic of Bush, often bashing him on her Web site.
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Jew vs. Jew in debate over sex-change operations for children
The Boston Globe's report Q & A on with a doctor, Norman Spack, who offers sex-change operations to children struggling with "cross-gender feelings," takes a Jewish turn.
In the interview, Spack discussed how his Jewish faith informs his work. His response: "My own rabbi said it best: The transgendered are also created b'tzelem Elohim, in the image of God."
The comment drew a rebuke from a conservative activist, Brian Camenker:
Camenker takes personal affront to that response. "Being Jewish myself, it's a tremendous embarrassment that he would try to claim that Judaism has any connection at all to this kind of demonic and lunatic behavior – because it doesn't," he states.
UPDATE: In my rush to get this post up, I mixed up the links, leaving people with the – incorrect – impression that I was siding with Camenker. My only aim was to note that the doctor's comment about his rabbi was irking a Jewish conservative who opposes his work. Sorry about the initial screw-up, but I disagree with those out there who think that there was something wrong with citing the exchange.
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