May 2, 2013 | Eshel in the News
Gay and Orthodox: The Mother Road to Acceptance It’s Friday afternoon and I am driving from Chicago down to my friend Aviva’s house in Saint Louis with two of my eight children. The last time we drove this way, we were exploring Route 66, and I told the kids how, during the Dust Bowl in [more]
Apr 13, 2013 | Eshel in the News
LGBT and Observant: St. Louis Jewish Light covers Eshel event Elissa Kaplan says deciding 10 years ago to tell her two oldest children, then ages 9 and 11, that she was gay still stands as the “scariest decision” of her life. It not only resulted in her children knowing, but also, quite unexpectedly, the head [more]
Apr 6, 2013 | Eshel in the News
Gay Orthodox Jews to gather and discuss challenges they face When Hyim Shafner first started working as the campus rabbi for St. Louis Hillel at Washington University in the mid-1990s, he was approached by a male student with an unusual request. “I’m having trouble meeting guys, rabbi,” Shafner remembers the student saying. “Can you fix [more]
