Aug 18, 2020 | Eshel in the News
How inclusive can a Modern Orthodox school be while remaining true to its halachic standards? That’s the question that has been raised after an Oakland couple claimed last week that their gender-fluid son was denied admission to Oakland Hebrew Day School, and posted about it on Instagram. Oakland resident Meg Keene said that her 7-year-old son [more]
Apr 6, 2020 | Eshel in the News
By Rabbi Zach Truboff With the three day yom tov this week there have been a lot of conversations about what can or can't be done for people who might experience distress over the holiday. Most of the discussion I have seen around the use of Zoom or calling people on Shabbat/Yom Tov focus only [more]
Apr 6, 2020 | Eshel in the News, Featured Articles
The psychological impact of quarantine Social Isolation by Zach Truboff
Oct 25, 2019 | Eshel in the News
According to Miryam Kabakov, executive director of ten-year-old Orthodox LGBTQ+ organization Eshel, the Orthodox community has become exceedingly more open over the past decade. “When we started,” she says, “Orthodox communities were not really addressing LGBTQ inclusion as something they needed to do.” Now, Eshel’s Welcoming Shuls project reports that over 140 Orthodox synagogues across North America are [more]
Oct 7, 2019 | Eshel in the News
West Hempstead’s Jews pride themselves on their ‘live and let live’ attitude — but their rabbis’ hard-line response to the LGBTQ community has infuriated many. An unbelievable tale of love, hate and shuls in kosher Chinese restaurants. By Danielle Ziri NEW YORK — As the world marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in [more]
Oct 7, 2019 | Eshel in the News
After Shifting its Strategy, a Foundation Gets Behind Jewish Women Social Entrepreneurs June 6, 2019 Debra Nussbaum Cohen Evie Litwok got emotional when she opened up a letter from The Collective, a new joint project of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York that invests in social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders. The letter informed Litwok that [more]
