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Parashat Be’Ha’alotekha Singing for Our Lives by Gregg Drinkwater on Friday June 16, 2006 20 Sivan 5766 Numbers 8:1-12:16, Shabbat I’ve always harbored a suspicion that Moses’ sister, the feminist icon Miriam, was a lesbian. Or that at least if she lived today, she would have fit in swimmingly in…
Read moreParashat Re’eh Silencing Abominable Language by Rabbi Seth Goren on Saturday August 11, 2007 27 Av, 5767 Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17,Shabbat, 27th of Av, 5767 I have to confess that this week’s portion, almost through no fault of its own, kind of annoys me. It’s not the command to put false prophets…
Read moreParashat Shemot Saving Our Youth from the Crocodiles by Martin Rawlings-Fein on Friday January 08, 2010 Tevet 22 5770 Exodus 1:1 – 6:1 Shemot, or Names, is this weeks Parashat and in it we follow the life of Moses through birth, exile, and his eventual return to Egypt. We begin…
Read moreParashat Acharei Mot Returning to Mitzrayim by Rachel Barenblat on Saturday April 19, 2008 14 Nisan 5768 Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30, Pesach Baseball season recently started up again. For me, the beginning of baseball season is the appropriate time to read Acharei Mot, the knuckleball of all Torah portions. Like…
Read moreParashat B’midbar “Queer” Tribes: Finding a Place for Alternative Families [REPRINT] by Gregg Drinkwater on Friday May 22, 2009 28 Iyar, 5769 Numbers 1:1-4:20 [This Torah Queery was originally published in May, 2006.] The Book of Numbers opens with the voice of God, commanding Moses to conduct a census of…
Read moreParashat Nitzavim Queer Authority by Amy Soule on Friday September 24, 2010 16 Tishrei 5771 Deuteronomy 29:9 – 30:20 Coming to Parashiyot Nitzavim and Vayeilech means we have almost come full circle in our annual Torah readings. Throughout these portions many surprising affirmations surface for anyone who might describe themselves…
Read moreParshat Beshallach; Exodus 13:17-17:16 By Rabbi Denise Eger The Children of Israel are finally on their way out from Egypt and servitude and slavery with the arrival of this week’s portion- Beshallach. Our portion begins with a caution about the path that God would send them on. It says, “The…
Read moreParashat Vayikra Not a Deathly Hallows: A Year of Queer Torah by Noach Dzmura on Friday March 27, 2009 2 Nisan 5769 Leviticus 1:1 – 5:26 Parashat Vayikra begins the book of Leviticus, which contains a set of processes through which the intrepid desert wanderers hallow themselves to grow close…
Read moreParashat B’reshit B’reshit and bashert: in our beginning, all kinds of love were sanctified by Amy Soule on Friday October 16, 2009 28 Tishrei 5770 Genesis 1:1 – 6:8 So God created humankind in God’s own image; in the image of God humanity was created; male and female God created…
Read moreParashat Lech Lecha Go Forth to Celebrate Your Gay Family by Melissa B. Simon on Friday November 07, 2008 9 Cheshvan 5769 Genesis 12:1 – 17:27 The gay community, it seems, is in the midst of a bit of a baby boom. Given increasing access to sperm donation, surrogacy, and…
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