Linktastic Linkathon
Hello fabulous readers! You’re looking especially well-rested today, and what you’ve done with your tentacles is just absolutely divine.
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Hello fabulous readers! You’re looking especially well-rested today, and what you’ve done with your tentacles is just absolutely divine.
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The Purim Superhero, a new picture book for Jewish children, includes gay parents. It’s about time.
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It is a truism in the LGBT community to say that we need LGBT-inclusive children’s books so our kids see images of families like theirs. Yet with few exceptions, LGBT-inclusive picture books have largely shown culturally and religiously neutral families. Diversity of color has started to appear, but even those books don’t explore the families’ various cultural and religious traditions. Kids may therefore see some important aspects of their families in these books, but others are left out. Elisabeth Kushner’s The Purim Superhero, the first clearly LGBT-inclusive Jewish children’s book in English, takes a different approach.
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For her children's book, The Purim Superhero, local author Elisabeth Kushner won an international contest sponsored by the Jewish organization Keshet.
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Although Nate wants to be an alien for Purim, all the other boys are dressing up as superheroes. He asks his two dads for input and learns that it’s OK to be yourself, and that it may seem lonely at times to follow your own instincts, but doing so can also give you strength.
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The Purim Superhero follows Nate, who is worried about being different from his classmates. They all plan to wear superhero costumes to their synagogue’s Purim celebration, but Nate would rather dress as an alien. Seeking advice from his two dads, Nate decides what to do.
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The 9th grade social action class at Temple Ner Tamid, in Bloomfield NJ, is raising awareness regarding bullying in our society.
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The first ever LGBT inclusive children’s book aimed at Jewish people is being released, Minneapolis-based publisher Kar-Ben Publishing has announced.
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Yesterday we hosted Elisabeth Kushner, a Vancouver, BC librarian and author who recently published her first picture book, The Purim Superhero.
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‘The Purim Superhero’ is story of young boy whose dilemma over which Purim costume to pick is solved with help of his 2 dads.
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New children’s book mixes an inclusive message with holiday inspiration.
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When you talk to gay Jews (instead of about us), you’ll learn that many of us seek to participate meaningfully in the Jewish communities, culture, and religion that is so central to our lives.
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The concept of a superhero—someone who has special powers to fight evil and protect humanity from dange to most all children and to most all adults. Following is a handy guide to all the classic superheroes and a few new ones.
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In Boston, the Prudential building might not shine red, purple and pink, but love is still in the air with events around the city for LGBT singles and couples alike to celebrate the Hallmark holiday of love.
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In honor of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, gay news site Queerty is encouraging LGBT Jews to buy a new book featuring a Jewish boy with two fathers, the first of its kind to bring Judaism, children, and homosexuality together.
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Earlier in the week we told you about the Rainbow List—the American Library Association’s roundup of top LGBT titles for kids. Well, next year they may want to add The Purim Superhero, billed as the first LGBT-inclusive Jewish children’s book written in English.
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A Denver, CO MO Rabbi, YCT grad, has hosted a ‘Keshet’ toeivah training institute at his Orthodox Shul.
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Thank you to the super-gay activist Michael Barnett for telling Gay Dads Australia about this new book, "The Purim Superhero".
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As you may have guessed, we’re huge fans of Jewish children’s books, which is why we were very excited to co-sponsor the launch of The Purim Superhero, the first LGBT- inclusive Jewish children’s book inEnglish!
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People forget that Superman is an alien. This book is a reminder that that’s the source of his strength.
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