A conversation with Rabbi Greenberg: Six Queer Heroes and Scoundrels

Join us for a light dairy dinner and a conversation with Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-founder and Director of Education at Eshel. This is an opportunity to schmooze with him, meet other LGBTQ+ Jews and Orthodox parents of LGBTQ+ children in South Florida.

 

Same-sex love, while surely hidden and formally decried, finds surprising expression in Jewish poetry, prose and case law. The material is full of pathos, gender bending, humor and intrigue and reveals a sliver of life, despite the well known prohibition, that has been all but erased from historical memory. We will meet six queer characters of Jewish history, some famous others infamous whose stories will help us to make sense of the issue for our own moment.