Nov 27, 2016 | Eshel in the News
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May 28, 2014 | Eshel in the News
Rabbi Avi Gisar: I Will Allow a Lesbian Family to Live in Ofra By: Netael Bendel Translated by EREZ TRANSLATIONS Rabbanit Esti Rozenberg, dean of the Migdal Oz Academy, said, “[we need] to do everything [possible] to keep the same sex couples in the religious community”. “I will give homosexuals an aliyah to the Torah, [more]
Jun 28, 2012 | Eshel in the News
Reconciling sexuality with religion One would be hard pressed to find instances of Orthodox Judaism and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) occupying the same sentence. Yet for the women whose stories appear in the anthology, "Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires," reconciling the two is a familiar task. After coming [more]
Aug 30, 2011 | Eshel in the News
Finding God At the End of the Rainbow It’s not easy, knowing that a part of your identity, of who you are, has the potential to tear your family apart, that it could destroy your siblings’ chances of getting married, and that there’s a possibility that someone who you thought of as a friend could [more]
Mar 11, 2011 | Eshel in the News
Israeli rabbis launch initiative to marry gay men to lesbian women So far, 11 marriages have been performed, and some were surprising successes. Rabbis from the religious Zionist community have launched an initiative to marry gay men to lesbian women - with some surprising successes. So far, 11 marriages have been performed. Haaretz conducted an [more]
