Tonight is a Yiddish service, Zol Zahn Shabbes — literally, we should have Shabbat — and it\’s happening at Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), founded in 1972 as the world\’s first synagogue for lesbian and gay Jews.
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) announced this month that Eisen, 54, the chair of Stanford University\’s religious studies program, would become just the second nonrabbi to serve as the New York City seminary\’s chancellor and the first since 1940. He succeeds Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, who held the post for two decades.
Amid a flurry of legal activity and political posturing, the topic of gay marriage has moved with lightning speed from being an obscure issue reserved for advocates and their seasoned respondents to the forefront of political, emotional and intellectual debate.
\”Like peeling an onion,\” Rabbi Steven Greenberg said, about the process of coming out.
Joan Nestle is one of many Jewish lesbian writers with work catalogued at ONE, an archive similar to New York\’s Lesbian Herstory Archive, which Nestle co-founded in 1973.
French-Canadian director Léa Pool calls her latest movie a teenage-lesbian version of \”Romeo and Juliet.\”
The next chapter in the struggle for normality in Judaism on the part of gay men and lesbians will take place within Conservative Judaism over admission to rabbinical school.
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