Mar 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
A weekend retreat inspires advocacy for gay Orthodox Jews and creates a support network for families in religious communities. By Tova Ross (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Shutterstock) It was telling that Eshel—the national organization offering community and programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Jews and their families in Orthodox communities—held its [more]
Oct 11, 2013 | Eshel in the News, Featured Articles
By Anonymous Editor's Note: Eshel, an organization that advocates for an Orthodox community that is inclusive of LGBTQ Jews, offered us this piece in honor of National Coming Out Day. Eshel is launching an Orthodox Allies Roundtable. To find out more on how to be an Orthodox ally click here. I am a Modern [more]
Oct 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
By Rabbi Steven Greenberg The holidays are over. Through the fasting and food, the succession of pageant, discomfort, reconciliation and exultation, a single moment continues to stands out. Every year for more than 30 years I have found the Yom Kippur afternoon service Torah reading unnerving — and this year I did not. Among [more]
Mar 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
By Melanie Weiss As we’ve explored in earlier posts by and about Orthodox Jews who are also LGBTQ (including a round-up of blogs, a video from hip-hop artist Y-Love, what it;s like to come out at an Orthodox high school, and an interview with the first out gay Orthodox rabbi), being Orthodox and LGBTQ is complicated. [more]
Aug 14, 2012 | Featured Articles
By Rabbi Steven Greenberg A few months ago, a young Orthodox rabbi decided to “come out of the closet,” in a sense, when he publicly identified himself as an “LGBT ally,” referring to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, founder of Uri L’Tzedek, an Orthodox social justice group, and a director of [more]
Oct 12, 2010 | Featured Articles
By Rabbi Steven Greenberg This past spring, my partner and I moved to Cincinnati. Soon after we arrived, an Orthodox synagogue in town prohibited our attendance. The rabbi of the shul called apologetically to inform us that the ruling had come from a rabbi whose authority exceeded his own. I decided to call [more]
