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August, 5, 2017 Temple Emanuel For You Too Were a Stranger: Becoming an Ally to LGBTQ Community, by Daniel Bahner Good Shabbos everyone! Thank you, very much, for welcoming me to your community! I want to especially thank Rabbi Robinson and Rabbi Gardenswartz for extending the invitation! As you read…
Read moreParashat Bo FINAL CUT: Circumcising Egypt by Amichai Lau-Lavie on Saturday January 27, 2007 8 Sh’vat 5767 Exodus 10:1 – 13:16 This week’s Torah episode is called “Bo”, otherwise known as “Showdown in Egypt.” “Bo” is Hebrew for “come”—alluding to the divine command for Moses to come into the presence…
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 moreWill you be chanting Hallel this Shabbos? Why recite Hallel? The Orthodox Union website describes Hallel as “six Psalms (113-118), which are said as a unit, on joyous occasions, when the praise of G-d is particularly appropriate.” It goes on to explain that these occasions include the three major festivals…
Read moreSeveral years ago, Keshet member Adina Koch came out at her family’s Passover Seder. In true Koch family fashion, she did so by offering words of Torah. She gathered her whole family together, and shared with them how the Haggadah’s retelling of our ancestor’s journey from bondage to redemption offered…
Read moreThe first step towards creating a culture and environment of belonging is a commitment to a vision and the values of equality and respect for all people—and cultivating the language necessary to communicate those values and put them into action. Use Inclusive Language on all Communications Instead of saying, “ladies…
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 moreBackground Adding new rituals and texts to the Passover Seder is a way to connect this ancient holiday of the liberation to contemporary struggles for freedom. As we say each year at the Seder, “In every generation, we are commanded to view ourselves as if each one of us was…
Read moreHoliday: Counting the Omer Counting My Genders: A Neo-Kabbalistic View of the Omer by Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman on Thursday April 24, 2008 22 Iyyar, 5766 Leviticus 23:15-16, Counting the Omer “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.“ Torah teaches (Lev. 23:15) that it is a mitzvah…
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