Eshel Out Loud
News, Views, and Updates from the Eshel Community
Model Yseult Polfliet Has Finally Found Her Jewish Story
The Rwandan model — Burundi-born, Brussels-raised, now New York City resident — wants to create spaces for tough conversations. Read more.Eshel Newsletter – March 20, 2020
Wishing you a Shabbat of peace and health The last time I was in a room filled with people... ...I was celebrating Purim in shul. The wild costumes and silly songs testified to the concept of ונהפוך הוא: the idea that things are turned on their heads. Who knew that only a week [more]Coronavirus – by Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Rabbi Nathan Cardoza, a long-time rabbinic ally and a friend has shared with some colleagues this very thoughtful article. While we are in the midst of a dangerous and fearful time no one should minimize the real challenges that we are and will be facing. Anxiety is not the answer. And surely one day it [more]
How Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network Was Born
By Ruben Shimonov As a traditional Mizrahi-Sephardic gay Jewish immigrant, I never thought that it would be within the realm of possibility for me to proudly and confidently hold all of these different parts of my identity at the same time. And then I went on my first Eshel retreat. I had just moved to [more]
Bridging the Divides, Fostering Inclusivity: Panel Discussion with Miryam Kabakov
(This speech was given Miryam Kabakov, Executive Director of Eshel, at the panel discussion entitled " Bridging the Divides, Fostering Inclusivity: Rabbinic, Psychoanalytic and Academic Perspectives on Traditional Judaism and Contemporary Gender/Sex Identities," which was held at the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, November 11, 2019.) This Shabbat we read the Parsha where Avraham [more]
