Click here for a for a video recording this event! Hebrew is a language that genders EVERYTHING. Sexism and gender binary assumptions are embedded in every sentence. In recent years there’s a growing awareness to the problems of gender in Hebrew, and various creative ideas to offer change. In this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event we […]
Click here for a video recording of this Symposium! The groundbreaking anthology Queer Jews (Routledge, 2002) centered the voices of over two dozen LGBTQ Jews who were re-envisioning American Jewish culture by creating new communities and making room for themselves as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Queer Jews highlighted the bold voices of a generation of LGBTQ Jews […]
Click here for a video recording of this event! The late Jewish American artist Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) changed the face of children’s literature and paved the way for the reconsiderations of monstrosity and Otherness that pervade contemporary media, from Sesame Street to Stranger Things. His emotionally isolated, unruly, and ethnically particular protagonists use fantasy to resist social coercion and self-erasure. In Wild […]
Or click here for a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! Learn about the pioneers, milestone events, and inspirational moments that marked the early decades of the movement for LGBTQ rights in the American and European Jewish communities. This presentation – by the two leading scholars of Jewish queer history – explores […]
Click here for a video recording of this event! We sometimes imagine that queer love is a new phenomenon, that it never existed before our time. But the reality is that it has always been part of human and Jewish experience, recognized by the Torah and other Jewish textual sources. In this 3 December 2020 CLGS […]
Click HERE to view a video recording of this Jewish Queeries Series event ! In this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event, Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson analyzes the results of the election and offer possibilities for the next few months, as well as the long term implications for our community. The discussion in this recorded event […]
Click HERE for a video recording of this Jewish Queeries Series Event! In this first CLGS Jewish Queeries event of 2020-2021, Jericho Vincent, a genderqueer post-ultra-Orthodox Jew, offers a fascinating exploration of gender, Torah, and authenticity. Some of the questions they explore include the following: What does Judaism have to teach us about gender? In what […]