Jul 15, 2016 | Eshel Out Loud
Shlomit Metz-Poolat When rabbis fail, they don’t just fail me or my family, they fail their community as a whole. This is my story, about how rabbis — and so many in my community who followed them — failed us too. All of us. You see, I am a frum (observant) Jew, a mother, a [more]
Mar 17, 2015 | Eshel in the News
Rabbi Greenberg on "Hachnassat Orchim" and how it needs to extend to the Gay Community at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, which aired JBS in January 2014 and can be viewed online: https://blip.tv/jbs/rabbi-steven-greenberg-jfs-lecture-inclusion-gay-jews-7139294
Apr 24, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Inclusion Gets Boost Across County As part of an ongoing effort to ensure that Westchester’s Jewish institutions are welcoming to LGBTQ Jews — and their families — Rabbi Steven Greenberg, who is the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi in nation, will be speaking at various venues in the county April 25-27. “The weekend of April [more]
Feb 20, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Don’t Exclude Our Gay, Orthodox Children As a Modern Orthodox Jew and a Jewish educator, I have written, spoken and taught about homosexuality and our need as a community to address this issue within the framework of halacha, or Jewish law, for many years. I had already been an advocate for the LGBTQ community for [more]
May 1, 2013 | Eshel in the News
Gay Jews Need More Than Tolerance I write in response to Stuart Kurlander’s Opinion piece, “Door Is Wide Open For Gay Jews To Be Leaders” (April 26). I am a 21-year-old observant gay Jew actively involved in my campus Hillel. I fear that articles like this one proclaiming that LGBT Jews “have arrived” serve as [more]
