Jewish Scouting leaders said they were “overjoyed” after the Boy Scouts of America passed a resolution lifting a ban on gay youth.
A.J. Kreimer, the outgoing chairman of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting, said May 24 that the decision reached at the BSA’s national convention in Dallas the previous day was “momentous.”
“Anything we can do to get more young people, especially Jewish youth, involved is a great day for Judaism and for Scouting,” he said.
Members of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council passed the contested resolution with 61 percent of the vote. NJCOS and other Jewish groups had been vocal in their support for lifting the ban. — jta