ShaHeights – November 14-15, 2014

Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol 610 W 175th St, New York, NY

Join us for an Eshel Shabbat gathering in Washington Heights November 14-15th, 2014 Sold out! What? A Shabbat together in Washington Heights doing what we do best: Eating.  Talking. Singing. Laughing. With some learning and praying thrown in. Where? For parts of the weekend we will be joining "The Beis" starting with Friday night services […]

DC/Baltimore Parent Support Group – November 16, 2014

Private Location NY

DC/Baltimore Parent Support Group This group is for Orthodox Jewish parents with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children seeking peer support. We will also discuss ways to help parents and families navigate in their communities and to become advocates for their children. This group will meet in a private home at  10:30 AM EST on Sunday […]

Greater Philadelphia Area Parent Group – November 22, 2014

Private Location NY

This group is for Orthodox Jewish parents with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children seeking peer support. We will also discuss ways to help parents and families navigate in their communities and to become advocates for their children. This group will meet motzei shabbat in a private home at 7:00 PM EST on Saturday November 22. We will […]

Memorial for Shira Banki, Z”L, August 6th in NYC

The LGBT Center 208 W. 13th Street, New York, NY

Thursday, August 6th 6:30-8pm The LGBT Center, 208 W. 13th Street, NYC CBST,  JQY and Eshel invite you to join us in a Memorial and Solidarity Aseifa/Gathering in response to the senseless hatred in Israel last week.  We gather one week after the Jerusalem Pride Parade, in which six people were stabbed and one of […]

Sha’Cago! Aug. 28-30th in Chicago

Private Location NY

Spend a Shabbat with other Eshelites in Chicago!  Get to know other LGBTQ folks in a traditional Shabbat setting     Here are the details: Dates:  August 28-30th Time: From Friday evening until Sunday morning Place:  The West Rogers Park home of Goldie Goldbloom What?  Join Eshel leaders  Goldie Goldbloom, Aviva Buck-Yael and Rabbi Micah […]

Eshel Goes to PFLAG

Unnamed Venue Nashville, TN

Eshel Speaker Reuven Grant to speak at upcoming PFLAG Conference in Nashville, TN Reuven Grant, a member of the Eshel speakers bureau, will be speaking on a panel entitled:   Intersections: Faith, Equality and the Intersection of Faith and Equality   More on the conference schedule can be found at here.

CHOLENT

553 4th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn 553 4th Avenue, Park Slope, NY

Shlomo Ashkinazy, Eshel Board member will be speaking at Cholent! Being LGBT in the Frum Community and Being Frum in the LGBT Community:  How It has been changing over the past 30 Years? "CHOLENT" Thursday, November 5th 9 pm 553 4th Avenue Park Slope, Brooklyn

An Evening with Rabbi Rapoport

Netivot Boston, MA

Netivot is honored to be teaming up with Eshel to host an evening with Rabbi Chaim Rapoport, esteemed scholar, educator, and lecturer. Rabbi Rapoport is well-known for writing on Orthodoxy and homosexuality in his book, Judaism and Homosexuality: An Authentic Orthodox View. He will be speaking on about LGBT issues in the context of his […]

Merchav Batuach: Barnard/Columbia Hillel

Do you want to learn how to be an ally to an LGBTQ+ person in Orthodox community? Are you a student at Barnard/Columbia? Then sign up for the Merchav Batuach Training! Merchav Batuach will conduct a workshop at the Columbia/Barnard Hillel training those who want to be LGBTQ+ allies in the Orthodox community. This event […]

BeisCamp! Keeping the Law Just: The Living Tensions of Tzedek and Mishpat- NY

Luria School 238 St Marks Ave, Brooklyn, NY

BeisCamp, Eshel's traveling Orthodox LGBTQ+ Beit Midrash, hosts religious educators, scholars and rabbis to engage in the challenges of contemporary life and tradition.   Keeping the Law Just: The Living Tensions of Tzedek and Mishpat Tzedek and Misphat appear hundreds of times in the Tanach. They define God's will and convey the very purpose of […]

Trans Meet-Up!

TRANS MEET-UP with Abby Stein Dec. 15th RSVP TO INFO@ESHELONLINE.ORG AND RECEIVE THE ADDRESS

Free

National Retreat- FALLS VILLAGE, CT

Isabella Freedman Retreat Center 116 Johnson Road, Falls Village, CT

A Retreat for Orthodox Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Jews    Community: Past, present, and future Join us for one of the largest gatherings of LGBTQ+ Orthodox Jews who come together to celebrate Shabbat and our unique identities.     LOCATION: Isabella Freedman Retreat Center 116 Johnson Road, Falls Village, CT 06031 IS THIS FOR […]

BeisCamp Jan. 27th, 2016

January 27, 7:30-9 pm Body and Justice: Where Limitation and Perfection Meet Aviva Richman YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood, 54 Nagle Ave, New York, NY  Aviva Richman studied at the Pardes Kollel in Jerusalem and at the Drisha Scholars Circle in New York City.  She currently teaches Talmud at Mechon Hadar is […]

Justice Before There Was Law

JCC in Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St., New York, NY

Justice Before There Was Law: Tzedek and Mishpat in the Book of Genesis Shuli Taubes JCC Manhattan, 76th and Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY

Halacha and Community: Challenges and Approaches

National Museum of American Jewish History 101 S Independence Mall E, Philadelphia, PA

A Yom Iyyun at the National Museum of American Jewish History will take place from 8:45 a.m. until 1:00 p.m with Keynote Speaker Rabbi Steve Greenberg of ESHEL. The Yom Iyun will be an exploration of how Orthodox Jewish communities should welcome and include all members of the community. A special emphasis will be placed on issues regarding women, adults with […]

Sha’Brooklyn!

Join Eshel for Sha'Brooklyn: A Shabbat in *Brownstone Brooklyn *Locations for all events will be in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights.   Registration is now closed!   Chabad, Satmar, Bobov, Modern, Traditional, OTD and LGBTQ? Join Eshel for an inspirational weekend retreat in Brooklyn! The Shabbaton will bring together Orthodox and traditional LGBT Jews of all […]

Eshel Parent Retreat- A Retreat for Orthodox Parents of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Children – COPAKE, NY

Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp 159 Empire Road, Copake, NY

The Eshel Parent Retreat was the first time I was fully comfortable talking to other people about my LGBT child. —A retreat participant FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST SCHOLAR:  Rabbi Chaim Rapoport London based author, educator and lecturer Rabbi Chaim Rapoport lectures around the world on a broad range of topics pertaining to Jewish life and law […]

From Stanton to Sixth Street ~ A Welcoming Shuls Shabbat

Stanton Street Shul 180 Stanton St., New York, NY

Eshel returns for its Second Downtown Manhattan Shabbat with the Stanton Street Shul and Sixth  Street Community Synagogue "Creating Welcoming Communities" Sign the letter in support of Rabbi Bodner and Rabbi Bellino who have been attacked for hosting this weekend! VENUES: We will be in three different downtown venues over the weekend. Stanton Street Shul: […]

March in the Celebrate Israel Parade!

Unnamed Venue Fifth Avenue between 55th and 54th Street, New York

  Meet up at: Fifth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets Come join A Wider Bridge, Eshel, JQY, Keshet and Mosaic of Westchester as we gather the entire LGBTQ Jewish community in the one glorious, singing, dancing crowd as we celebrate Israel. We are honored to be near the front of the parade this year […]

Free

Eshel goes to Art Kibbutz

Governor's Island Governor's Island Nolan Park 6B, New York

 Creative Queers: A Picnic & Performance This Sunday, join Eshel in celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community through dance, art, spoken word, and all other forms of creative expression. Guests are invited to eat, drink, and enjoy entertainment spread across the sprawling green grounds of Governor’s Island and Art Kibbutz summer studios at Nolan Park 6B. We […]

Family Potluck Picnic

Unnamed Venue Englewood, NJ

Save the date! You and your family are invited to celebrate the last licks of summer with our Eshel parents and families. Join us for the second annual family potluck picnic in the beautiful backyard of our very own Ken and Jeannie Prager in Englewood, NJ Please use this form to let us know what […]