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SUMMARY:Retreat for Parents of LGBTQ Children
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE!\nMay 5-7th\, 2017\nLiving happy\, healthy\, and holy lives for ourselves and our children\nFor parents of LGBTQ+ children in Orthodox community.\nJoin a growing and vibrant parent community. Meet parents just like you!”\nTo register\, go here!\nMeet a few of our guest speakers:\nJack Drescher\, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in a private practice as well as a clinical professor in the areas of Sexuality and Gender Identity. Authoring a number of relevant volumes such as\, “Homosexuality\, Gay and Lesbian Identities\, and Homosexual Behavior” and “Gender Identity\, Gender Variance and Gender Dysphoria\,” Dr. Drescher is the foremost expert and speaker on issues concerning LGBT individuals and their families. His expert views have been sought and quoted by Reuters\, Time\, Newsweek\, People\, Esquire\, The New York Times\, USA Today\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe\, and numerous other media outlets. Learn more about Dr. Drescher on his website. \n  \nRabbi Haim Ovadia is currently the rabbi at Magen David Sephardic Congregation-Beit Eliahu (MDSCBE)\, a modern Orthodox Synagogue located in Rockville\, Maryland. Born in Israel\, Rabbi Haim Ovadia received his Semicha in 1991 from Israeli Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu after studying rabbinics at the Shehebar Sephardic Center. Rabbi Ovadia served as a hazan and assistant Rabbi at Communidad Hebrea Sefaradi de Bogota in Bogota\, Columbia until 1996. In the same year he received a degree in Judaic studies in Bar-Ilan University before coming to the United States where he served as assistant Rabbi in Magen David in West Deal from 1997-99. He was associate rabbi at Beth Torah in Brooklyn until 2001.  Rabbi Ovadia also has a Masters Degree from UCLA in Hebrew literature. \n \nRena Fruchter is an artist and educator living in Maryland. Her work brings about powerful and transformative creative experiences for students of all ages. She believes that the collective creative process can foster dialogue in unique and important ways. In this spirit\, her current project\, Big Picture Mosaics (www.bigpicturemosaics.com) allows groups of people to collaborate on large-scale mosaic works that encourage conversation\, celebration and healing. Big Picture Mosaics workshops have taken place in social work programs\, retreats\, mikvahs\, senior centers and schools.  Rena and her husband Chaim have four grown children who are all working creatively\, in the literary\, musical and puppetry arts and in the rabbinate\, to make the world a better place.  Rena holds a B.S. in Art Education from the University of Maryland and an M.A. from George Washington University in Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts. \nDr. Saundra Sterling Epstein (Sunnie) is a well known Jewish educator who has worked in many venues and around many topics of Jewish Learning as well as education in general.  Within that work\, Sunnie has always been an advocate for inclusion of all members of our Jewish community\, including our LGBT members\, and has taught extensively about that inclusion from a Jewish text informed perspective.   Sunnie and her husband Ken are also the parents of four amazing children\,two of whom happen to be gay. \n  \nAbby Stein is an American transgender activist\, blogger\, and speaker. She is the first openly transgender woman from a Hasidic community\, and is a direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism’s founder the Baal Shem Tov.    Abby is also the first openly transgender woman to have been ordained by an Orthodox institution (before her transition)\, having received her rabbinical degree in 2012\, from an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic school. \n\n \nRabbi Steve Greenberg works part-time as Eshel’s co-director and part-time faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.  He is the author of the groundbreaking book\, Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2004)\, which won the Koret Book Award for Philosophy and Thought.  He lives with his partner Steven Goldstein and his daughter Amalia in Boston. \n\nChavie Weisberger grew up in a Chassidic community in Monsey\, NY. She is a queer single mother of 3 delightful children. A member of the Eshel community since 2012\, Chavie runs groups and assists with special projects. She concurrently serves as Community Engagement Associate at Footsteps – a non-profit where she works towards building a network of those who have made the transition out of ultra-Orthodoxy and are looking to be connected with the other like-minded individuals. \n\n\nIs this for me? \nWhether you are accepting of your LGBT child or struggling with their identity\, or somewhere in between\, this is the place for you. No judgments will be made about any retreat participant’s levels of acceptance of their LGBT child. We only ask that each attendee agree to respect other participants’ feelings and attitudes. \nWhat will happen at this weekend?\nWe will create a comfortable place to share.\nSessions will address having an LGBT child in Orthodox families and the communities of which we are a part.  See below for the learning opportunities. \nWhere will it be?\nBerkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp\n159 Empire Road\nCopake\, NY 12516\nPhone: (518) 329-3303 \nGetting there: \nBerkshire Hills is located a couple of hours outside of NYC. \nFor getting to the retreat site on your own\, please visit the retreat website to find out information about train\, airplane and car travel to and from the retreat center.  Transportation to and from the retreat is at your own expense.  Have a ride? Need a ride?  Let us know! info@eshelonline.org \nSessions and learning experiences will include:\n\n\nIt Takes Two to Tango: The Dance of the Parent-Child Relationship\n\n\nWhen You and Your Spouse are Not on the Same Page at the Same Time about your LGBT Child – or at different stages of acceptance\n\n\nThe Child I Gave Birth To and the Person You’ve Become: exploring the experience of having a child who is transgender\n\n\nLearning the Ropes: practical pointers for helping your trans child navigate the legal and medical systems\n\n\n“Put Your Own Oxygen Mask on First”: Taking Care of Ourselves So We Can Take Care of Our Kids\n\n\nKeeping Our Kids Healthy and Safe: Mental Health Resources\n\n\nFinding the Right Words: How and What to Say?\n\n\nWhat’s So Funny about Having an LGBT Child? Well\, did I tell you about the time… Sharing humorous anecdotes.\n\n\nRed Flags – What to Look Out For: Warning Signs that We Might Need to Consult with A Mental Health Professional\n\n\nFrom Pieces to a New Whole: Helping our Child be the Best He or She Can Be and the Many Different Ways of Being Kadosh\n\n\nQuestions? Email info@eshelonline.org\nWhere brothers meet \nWhat parents are saying about the parent retreat:\nOverall the retreat introduced me to the issues surrounding having a gay child and how I feel about it. I have not been able to speak about it to anyone but my wife and my friend.\nI always feel a part of something\, rather than apart from something\, at the retreat.\nMake friends that last a lifetime \nThe relationships I’ve formed here\, both new and ongoing\, are very important to me. The warmth and togetherness of the retreat is wonderful. The sessions are interesting and thought-provoking.\nAlthough I knew I was not alone\, it was a powerful experience to meet with others\n\n\nThe spirit of the weekend is so overpoweringly positive and encouraging…The food and camaraderie were terrific but most importantly we are in a community of people who get it and support each other. For one weekend we are living in our dream Orthodox community and shul.\n  \nPAY IT FORWARD:  BECOME A PEER MENTOR TO ANOTHER PARENT!\nHave you been to an Eshel parent retreat before?  Do you feel it’s time to give back or “pay forward” what you got when you first discovered your child was LGBTQ? Well\, now you can!  We will launch our parent mentoring program training at the upcoming retreat.  Don’t miss it!\nFind out more by emailing us at info@eshelonline.org\nWant to apply? Fill out this form! \n  \nNo one will be turned away for lack of funds; inquire about our gift card program: info@eshelonline.org\nJoin the Eshel family!   \n \nRate information:    Double Occupancy:           Single Occupancy:\nSuper Early Bird:     Until March 3: $225             $300\nEarly Bird:                  Until April 3:   $250              $325\nRegular Fee:              Until April 18: $275               $375
URL:https://www.eshelonline.org/event/parent-retreat/
LOCATION:Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp\, 159 Empire Road\, Copake\, NY\, 12516\, United States
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