Jun 2, 2016 | Eshel Out Loud
Stanton Street Shul and the Sixth Street Community Synagogue have welcomed Eshel into their community for a Downtown Manhattan shabbaton. Unfortunately, a group of local religious leaders is pressuring them to cancel the event. You can read more about those efforts here. Rabbi Aviad Bodner, Rabbi Gavriel Bellino, and the lay leadership of both [more]
Nov 1, 2015 | Eshel Out Loud, Featured Articles
The Life of Barry Youngerman, Zichrono Livracha (Of Blessed Memory) August 7, 1946 – October 10, 2015 Barry Youngerman was born in the east Bronx in 1946 to Henry Youngerman and Sylvia Lieblein, immigrants who left Austria and Poland. He and his sister Sharon grew up in a moderately traditional home with a great love [more]
Apr 20, 2015 | Eshel in the News, Featured Articles, Media
Out in the Open It’s no doubt at the forefront of the minds of the approximately 45 attendees at this weekend’s Eshel retreat — designed to support Orthodox parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children — that the Supreme Court will hear arguments to decide whether the Constitution allows for a state to [more]
Oct 20, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Eshel Recognized in Slingshot Guide Share the good news! [button link="#https://twitter.com/EshelOnline" type="icon" icon="rss" newwindow="yes"] Twitter[/button] [button link="#Facebook https://www.facebook.com" type="icon" icon="rss" newwindow="yes"] Facebook[/button] Eshel is to be named one of North America’s top 82 innovative Jewish organizations in the tenth annual Slingshot Guide. The Guide has become a go-to resource for [more]
Jul 3, 2013 | Eshel in the News
Shlomo Ashkinazy’s Reverence For Storytelling As the 1970s turned into the ‘80s, many Jews experienced a spiritual awakening that brought them closer to the pietistic ways of their grandparents and reinvigorated the Jewish identity. Steve Ashkinazy felt the call and went to Jerusalem for a year. He returned in 1983, Orthodox but with a difference. [more]
