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SUMMARY:Boston | Eshel Summer Book Series: Keep Your Wives Away from Them with Miryam Kabakov
DESCRIPTION:Sign Up\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Eshel is partnering with Lehrhaus in Somerville\, MA to Celebrate the Anniversaries of three groundbreaking books this summer on the Queering of Traditional Judaism. \n\nJune 18 – Wrestling with God and Men (2004) by Steve Greenberg\nJuly 18 – Queer Judaism (2023) by Orit Avishai\nAugust 18 – Keep Your Wives Away From Them (2011) by Miryam Kabakov\n\n  \nAbout the Book \nKeep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women\, Unorthodox Desires: An AnthologyMiryam Kabakov \nReconciling queerness with religion has always been an enormous challenge. When the religion is Orthodox Judaism\, the task is even more daunting. This anthology takes on that challenge by giving voice to genderqueer Jewish women who were once silenced–and effectively rendered invisible–by their faith. Keep Your Wives Away from Them tells the story of those who have come out\, who are still closeted\, living double lives\, or struggling to maintain an integrated “single life” in relationship to traditional Judaism–personal stories that are both enlightening and edifying. While a number of films and books have explored the lives of queer people in Orthodox and observant Judaism\, only this one explores in depth what happens after the struggle\, when the real work of building integrated lives begins. The candor of these insightful stories in Keep Your Wives Away from Them makes the book appealing to a general audience and students of women’s\, gender\, and LGBTQ studies\, as well as for anyone struggling personally with the same issue. Contributors include musician and writer Temim Fruchter\, Professor Joy Ladin\, writer Leah Lax\, nurse Tamar Prager\, and the pseudonymous Ex-Yeshiva Girl. \n  \nAbout the Author: \nMiryam Kabakov is a national leader who has worked for more than three decades on the inclusion of LGTBQ+ individuals in the Orthodox world. Miryam is Executive Director and ​co-founder of Eshel\, a national organization that supports LGBTQ+ Orthodox individuals and their families. Prior to being a leader at Eshel\, Miryam was the New York and National Program Director of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps\, Director of LGBT programming at the JCC Manhattan\, Social Worker at West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing\, and was the first social worker at Footsteps. Miryam received her MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. She also received a certificate in fundraising from the University of St. Thomas and a certificate in program evaluation from the University of Washington\, and has a background in informal Jewish education from Brandeis University. She founded the New York Orthodykes\, a support group for lesbian\, bisexual and transgender Orthodox women\, and is the editor of Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women\, Unorthodox Desires (North Atlantic Books\, May 2010)\, a collection of writings about the challenges and joys of LBT Orthodox Jews and winner of the Golden Crown Literary Award. \n			\n				Sign Up
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SUMMARY:Eshel Summer Book Series: Queer Judaism with Orit Avishai
DESCRIPTION:Sign Up\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Eshel is partnering with Lehrhaus in Somerville\, MA to Celebrate the Anniversaries of three groundbreaking books this summer on the Queering of Traditional Judaism. \n\nJune 18 – Wrestling with God and Men (2004) by Steve Greenberg\nJuly 18 – Queer Judaism (2023) by Orit Avishai\nAugust 18 – Keep Your Wives Away From Them (2011) by Miryam Kabakov\n\n  \nAbout the Book \nQueer Judiasm: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in IsraelOrit Avishai \nUntil fairly recently\, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold. But within the span of about a decade and a half\, Orthodox LGBT people have forged social circles and communities and become much more visible. This has been a remarkable shift in a relatively short time span. Queer Judaism offers the compelling story of how Jewish LGBT persons in Israel created an effective social movement. \nDrawing on more than 120 interviews\, Orit Avishai illustrates how LGBT Jews accomplished this radical change. She makes the case that it has taken multiple approaches to achieve recognition within the community\, ranging from political activism to more personal interactions with religious leaders and community members\, to simply creating spaces to go about their everyday lives. Orthodox LGBT Jews have drawn from their lived experiences as well as Jewish traditions\, symbols\, and mythologies to build this movement\, motivated to embrace their sexual identity not in spite of\, but rather because of\, their commitment to Jewish scripture\, tradition\, and way of life. Unique and timely\,Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel (NYU Press\, 2023) challenges popular conceptions of how LGBT people interact and identify with conservative communities of faith. \n  \nAbout the Author: \nOrit Avishai is a sociologist at Fordham University in New York\, where she is affiliated with the Center for Jewish Studies. She has a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and law degrees from the Yale Law School and Tel Aviv University. She teaches courses on religion\, gender\, sexuality\, and American politics. Her book Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel addresses how traditional religious values and practice in Israel is being reshaped by the life choices of LGBTQ+ Orthodox Jews. \n			\n				Sign Up\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				The next and final event in this series is on August 18 – Keep Your Wives Away From Them (2011) by Miryam Kabakov
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