Jun 30, 2025 | Eshel in the News
An LGBTQ+ Jewish group surveyed the community over the last two years and found they are experiencing alienation at incredibly high rates — but it didn't start with October 7th. By Alexandra Miller For LGBTQ+ Jews, annual Pride Month celebrations were once a treasured safe space — but not anymore. "I've never felt more excluded [more]
Jun 6, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By Joanne PalmerJune 5, 2025, 9:59 am Robin Siegel, left, talks to another parent at the retreat. (Stefanie Diamond) It’s a near-universal truth that parents want to protect their children. That overriding impulse can start even before a baby is born, and if anything, it often strengthens once children grow out of toddlerhood and dependence and [more]
Jun 6, 2025 | Eshel in the News
“One hopes that both sides in the Yeshiva University dispute can model how intra-Jewish disputes should be carried on,” Jonathan Sarna told JNS. Emily Goldberg Rabbi Steve Greenberg, the founding director of Eshel, whose mission is “to build LGBTQ+ inclusive Orthodox Jewish communities,” holds rabbinic ordination and an undergraduate degree from Yeshiva. He told [more]
May 21, 2025 | Eshel in the News
(RNS) — It feels even scarier in 2025, not knowing if I will be targeted for the mezuzah on my door or the pride flag I have hanging. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1600"] A Star of David pride flag during a Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ted Eytan (CC BY 4.0))[/caption] By Ely [more]
May 7, 2025 | Eshel in the News
by Rabbi Steve Greenberg Senior rabbis at Yeshiva University were ready to quit. The impetus for their drastic threat to leave was the administration’s recent settlement agreement to let a small group of LGBTQ students meet over pizza. It is the most recent chapter in a 2021 lawsuit brought against Yeshiva University by the YU [more]
Apr 2, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By Louis Keene Yeshiva University’s approval of a campus LGBTQ+ club in a landmark settlement seemed to herald a new era of acceptance for queer students at the flagship Orthodox Jewish university. But amid uproar in the wider Orthodox community, the school’s rabbinic leaders have tried to make clear in the days since that nothing [more]
