Jul 16, 2024 | Eshel Out Loud
How does a community as committed to preserving tradition as Orthodoxy change? In Orit Avishai’s recent book, Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel, she seeks to answer how these changes came about in the Israeli Orthodox community. Based on her interviews, archival research, and meta-analysis, Avishai describes how one [more]
Jul 3, 2024 | Eshel Out Loud
For the last fifteen years, I have worked in fundraising in primarily Orthodox spaces, where I asked for gifts for day schools, Yeshivas, social justice organizations, and special needs support. Throughout that time I saw myself as an outsider, strengthening Orthodoxy, but not feeling connected to it myself - since the Orthodoxy I was strengthening [more]
Dec 21, 2023 | Eshel Out Loud
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Nov 17, 2023 | Eshel Out Loud
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Jun 30, 2023 | Eshel in the News
By Andrew Lapin “There is a cultural divide between the rabbis and the LGBTQ+ community,” Miryam Kabakov, executive director of the nonprofit Eshel, which supports LGBTQ Orthodox Jews and their families, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about the flag controversy. “The rabbis think that LGBTQ+ symbols are about sex,” Kabakov added. “They are not. They are [more]
