Put your feet up

30.04.2012                      08.Ijar. 5772                    Tag 23 des Omer; Ta'anit BH"B

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Put your feet up

At Juda 177, the food is tasty, the portions are generous, and the atmosphere is very laid-back.

As with many coffee shops and restaurants in Tel Aviv, Juda 177 is gay-friendly. But this cute, homey establishment on busy Ben-Yehuda Street right near the sea is a little different. Sammy, one of the owners, says that what makes his place gay-friendly is not the fact that a number of the customers, many of them his friends, feel comfortable there, but more importantly that he donates some of his earnings to gay charities such as the Open House and the fight against AIDS.
“I can’t be gay-friendly unless I give something back to the community. I can’t take money from people without giving them something back,” he says. He stresses that it is this desire to help the community that makes the place gay-friendly….