Jewish Queeries Series

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The Spirit of Pride: Jewish Lesbian History and Storytelling

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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 […]

Queering Shavuot with Rabbi Denise Eger

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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 […]

Talmudic Reflections on Gender Diversity with Dr. Max Strassfeld and Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman | A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

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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 […]

Queering Passover with Rabbi Denise Eger. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

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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 […]

Queering Purim with Rabbi Denise Eger. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

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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 […]

Prognosis: Notes on Living: A Jewish Lesbian Video About Cancer with Nancy Otto, Joan Lefkowitz, and Kate Stilley Steiner. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

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 […]

The Queernesses of Jewish Heresy: Sabbetai Zevi, Jacob Frank, and the Eros of Hasidism with Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson and Professor Naomi Seidman. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! From the 17th to 19th centuries, European Judaism witnessed an eruption of ecstasy and eros in a series of heretical and quasi-heretical movements beginning with the failed messiahs Sabbetai Zevi (1626-76) and Jacob Frank (1726-1791), and continuing through the ‘domestication’ of […]