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LESSON 6: Coming Out at Camp Goal: To create a space for CITs (Counselors in Training) to think critically about how accessible camp is for those who are LGBT. Objectives: At the end of this lesson, CITs will be able to… identify the difficulties of coming out in the camp…
Read moreGender in Jewish Law and Thought Prepared by Oren Hayon, UW Hillel Human Gender: The Essentialist or Biological Component And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and God said to them,…
Read moreThe primary mission of the Jewish Outreach Institute (www.JOI.org) is to “reach out and welcome in” the intermarried, and to promote inclusiveness in the Jewish community for intermarried families and disconnected Jews. Originally founded in 1988 as a think tank and research facility devoted to the study of intermarriage, JOI’s…
Read more“I believe we are living in an age in which the shechinah is becoming visible,” Rabbi Steve Greenberg says. “There are questions we can ask now that we have not been able to ask before.” Greenberg is “the openly gay Orthodox rabbi.” That’s the way he’s referred to in the…
Read moreParashat Vayishlach Wrestling Till Dawn by Joy Ladin on Friday December 04, 2009 17 Kislev 5770 Genesis 32:4 – 36:43 Tradition tells us that the Torah is not simply the story of our ancestors, that its narratives mirror and prefigure our own lives. For me, that’s certainly true of this…
Read moreAt a recent community interfaith workshop for family members, I listened to a woman ask in a very open, heartfelt manner for advice about her relationship with her youngest daughter, married to a non-Jewish man, who had recently given birth to her first child. Her daughter was not planning to…
Read moreI am sometimes asked: “How can you be gay and Jewish? Doesn’t the Bible forbid homosexuality?” Here is my attempt at an answer. At the outset, I am only answering this question as part of a subset of a subset of Jews: religious Jews who feel themselves bound or in…
Read moreThe body is nothing more than a garment. When they are naming souls in the upper world and they call out “So-and-So, the daughter of Such-and-Such,” no body yet exists, not even in the womb. Not only that—what about the couplings in Heaven? The books of the kabbalah are full…
Read moreLGBTQ-Inclusive Book List for Children and Families KESHET RESOURCES THE PURIM SUPERHERO Nate has a Purim dilemma. He loves aliens and really wants to wear an alien costume for Purim, but his friends are all dressing as superheroes and he wants to fit in. What will he do? With the…
Read moreAs part of my rabbinical studies my mentor Reb Daniel Siegel asked me to compose a kidushin ve’nisuin, a wedding, for same-sex couples grounded in the Halakha. For most of my life I was angry towards the Halakha, the Jewish law, as it was presented to me in Israel, where…
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