Oct 1, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Jewish Community Foundation Awards Cutting Edge Grant to a JQInternational and Eshel partnership in Los Angeles Funding Will Make Possible Initiatives Supporting Jewish Civic Life, Arts & Culture, Human Services, and Continuity September 9, 2015 The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles (The Foundation) announced that it has given a total of $1.5 million in Cutting Edge [more]
Sep 9, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Steve Greenberg: How Orthodox Jews Changed Their Minds On Gay Rights Same-sex rights proponents suffered an unusual loss this week when a federal judge in Louisiana upheld the state’s ban on gay marriage, bucking a domino-like chain of favorable rulings on the issue. Overall, 21 states have toppled bans since the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage [more]
Jun 18, 2014 | Eshel in the News
LGBTQ Jews need a place in community In 1952, my dad was a popular senior on his high school football team and my mother was a recent immigrant from war-torn France. It was my father’s protective instinct that caused him to intervene one day to help a newly arrived French girl navigate their American high school, [more]
Jun 12, 2014 | Eshel in the News
A new resource for LGBT Jews by Leslee Komaiko In 2009, nine years into Shelby Ilan-Pacheco’s marriage to her husband, she came to know with certainty something she had felt for so long. She was gay. But knowing this and doing something about it, doing anything, really, were two different things. “I was paralyzed,” recalled [more]
Jun 11, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Orthodox transgender child is shut out of shul 'God knows I'm a girl,' says the Midwestern teen who was shunned from her synagogue upon transitioning from Moshe to Miryam. More than most kids, Moshe, who lived with his mom and siblings in a midsize Midwestern city with a small Orthodox community, loved going to shul. [more]
Jun 11, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Orthodox transgender child is shut out of shul 'God knows I'm a girl,' says the Midwestern teen who was shunned from her synagogue upon transitioning from Moshe to Miryam. More than most kids, Moshe, who lived with his mom and siblings in a midsize Midwestern city with a small Orthodox community, loved going to shul. [more]
