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TORAH QUEERIES

What does it mean to "queer" sacred text? What are the moments in the Torah that speak to building more inclusive communities? Torah Queeries is a rich collection that unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism.

Read the reviews:


“This unique and lively work blends the traditional Jewish format of dividing Torah into weekly portions with specifically queer perspectives on them. Torah Queeries unveils a new queer Jewish way to understand this most sacred and central text that will surely stimulate and challenge the reader.”
- Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert, author of Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism

“Provides a challenge to readers and preachers who are single-mindedly devoted to the straight and narrow.”
- Daniel Boyarin, author of Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture

“Gives engaged, pertinent, GLBT-focused meaning to the Tanach. The analyses offered here work to break boundaries, queer-ing, celebrating, and re-creating our Jewish texts and traditions in meaningful ways. These acts of reading become the radical movement of making a space for GLBT Jews that is clever, humorous, loving, and thought-provoking.”
- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York

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The Marsha Goldstein Quiles Yartzeit Lecture

generously sponsored by the Ballon family in memory of Jeraldene.
"Equality within Islam”

With award-winning columnist Mona Eltahawy
How do you spell equality?

Mona Eltahawy is a Muslim liberal feminist journalist, born in Egypt and has lived in Israel, where she was the first Egyptian journalist to work for a western news agency. Now residing in New York, she is a columnist for Egypt's independent daily Al Masry Al Youm, Qatar's Al Arab and Israel's The Jerusalem Report. Cosponsored by Kolel and Congregation Darchei Noam.

Click to hear a short clip from Mona Eltahawy's recent talk.