Oct 15, 2020 | Eshel in the News
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.4.6"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.4.6"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.4.6"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.4.6"]Eshel Across America: Event: DuSiah: Dialogue between Queer Traditional Jews and our Rabbis DuSiah brings together tradition-centered LGBTQ+ Jews and Orthodox rabbis for a number of conversations. On the Sunday following Shabbat Vayera, when Avraham plants an Eshel tree near his tent to signal welcome, we are launching [more]
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]
