There was that moment when my synagogue’s director of education and youth programming and I looked at each other, and we came to an interesting conclusion. A very large percentage of our synagogue teens are LGBTQ. Thus was born Temple Israel of West Palm Beach’s outreach program for Jewish LGBTQ kids, generously supported by the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. Our goal: to create a safe space for LGBTQ Jewish kids and their allies, and to view this issue through a Jewish lens. I am proud to say that kids are signing up — both affiliated and non-affiliated. But,...