Jan 28, 2026 | Eshel in the News
[caption id="attachment_165132" align="aligncenter" width="624"]\ Photo by Mercedes Mehling/Unsplash/Creative Commons[/caption] by Yonat Shimron (RNS) — A group of Orthodox rabbis from the U.S. and Israel issued a strongly worded letter condemning discredited practices that try to “convert” LGBTQ+ people to heterosexuality — a rarity for an establishment that still largely sees queer people as sinful. The [more]
May 7, 2025 | Eshel in the News
by Rabbi Steve Greenberg Senior rabbis at Yeshiva University were ready to quit. The impetus for their drastic threat to leave was the administration’s recent settlement agreement to let a small group of LGBTQ students meet over pizza. It is the most recent chapter in a 2021 lawsuit brought against Yeshiva University by the YU [more]
Apr 2, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By Louis Keene Yeshiva University’s approval of a campus LGBTQ+ club in a landmark settlement seemed to herald a new era of acceptance for queer students at the flagship Orthodox Jewish university. But amid uproar in the wider Orthodox community, the school’s rabbinic leaders have tried to make clear in the days since that nothing [more]
Mar 24, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By Jackie Hajdenberg Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, a prominent and empathetic voice on contemporary issues facing Jews in the Orthodox world, died early Friday morning in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. He was 43. Fink, a married father of three, was a lawyer and the former rabbi of the Pacific Jewish [more]
Mar 4, 2024 | Eshel Out Loud
For several years, Eshel’s Welcoming Shuls Project has guided shuls and Rabbis in LGBTQ+ inclusion and helped LGBTQ+ people find the right shul for them and navigate shul life. Despite the increase in anti-trans media coverage and legislation, there is more interest than ever from our Welcoming Shuls to find ways to fully embrace transgender [more]
