Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queries Series event! “Hear the gay shouts of liberation in the tents of the just!” (Psalm 118:15). Reciting the festival liturgy on Pride Shabbat was an important innovation at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York, founded in 1973; so was this early gay-inclusive new […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queries Series! As the first generation of openly queer Jews becomes our elders, younger queer Jews are continuing the labor of organizing, advocating and building lives and community. This panel of clergy represents three generations who reflect together on the challenges and changes that have shaped […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queries Series event! Passover celebrates the “Exodus/Coming Out from Egypt” and our Passover Seder liturgy declares: “In every generation, each person should see themselves as if they themselves had come out..:” In this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event we explored the following questions: How can […]
Click Here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series! Rabbi Julie Greenberg has been a queer activist for fifty years. She is one of the first out lesbians admitted to rabbinical seminary, and has been an organizer in our community on many different justice issues in different cities throughout the country. Please join […]
Click HERE for a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event! How does Judaism look when we center nonbinary narratives, rather than treat them as anomalies? How do gender taxonomies represent complex rabbinic ideas about culture, practice and Jewish law? Is it possible to reclaim these texts in a liberatory way? Max Strassfeld […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! Rabbi Denise Eger’s phenomenal CLGS Jewish Queeries Series presentation a few months ago on Queering Hanukah generated so much positive feedback that she has agreed to present a mini-series on queering Purim, Pesach, and Shavuot. In this, the first lecture/discussion in […]
Click here to view this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! When Oscar-winning documentarian and LGBTQ activist Deborah Chasnoff is diagnosed with breast cancer, she turns the camera on herself and her chosen queer family. Underpinned by their decision to not hear her prognosis, ‘Chas’ and her wife Nancy Otto voice the tensions between the Jewish […]