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 to view a video recording of this CLGS Event! The Jewish holy day of Shavuot – beginning May 24th this year – raises profound issues of how queer people understand Scripture. As we empower ourselves as Torah interpreters, and center our own experiences and visions, the Torah becomes a living revelation rather than a […]
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! Join Rabbi Denise Eger as she continues her series of taking a look at Jewish holidays and traditions through a queer lens. CLGS’ Jewish Queeries Series is proud to present “Queering Passover.” Rabbi Denise L. Eger (she/her) is the founding Senior Rabbi of Congregation […]