PRIDE@GJC

Thu, 05/21/2020, -- Kate Lawn

Please join us for GJC’s June PRIDE programming.

Download a PRIDE Zoom Background here.

KOL ZIMRAH  
FRIDAY, JUNE 5 AT 6:00 PM

We’ll bring this tumultuous week to a close by entering into the peace of Shabbat with Kol Zimrah, lifting up the voices and reflections of LGBTQ members of our community.

 

PRIDE SHABBAT SERVICE featuring guest speaker Gwynn Kessler
SATURDAY, JUNE 6 AT 10:00 AM

On Saturday morning, Rabbi Richman will lead our Shabbat service. The service will follow the usual structure of the Charry service, with additional readings and teachings about LGBTQ liberation. Gwynn Kessler will share a d’var Torah with our community (at approximately 10:45 AM). Together, we will honor, celebrate, and lift up the interconnected fight for LGBTQ liberation and racial justice.

  • Join via smartphone, computer, or tablet: zoom link
  • Join via telephone: Call 646-876-9923, use meeting ID: 227420988
  • To listen on our audio livestream:  click HERE
  • To watch on our video livestream: go to the StreamSpot player on GJC’s homepage

Gwynn Kessler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College. She received her Ph.D in Rabbinics, with a specialization in midrash, from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2001. At Swarthmore she teaches classes on: The Queer Bible; Queering God: Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theology; Rape, Slavery, and Genocide in Bible and Culture; The Bible and Politics; and The Talmud.

Her most recent publications include A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism, which she co-edited with Naomi Koltun-Fromm (2020). In that volume she contributed a chapter on rabbinic constructions of gender entitled “Rabbinic Gender: Beyond Male and Female.” She has also recently contributed a chapter on “Judaism, Feminism and Gender” (2020) and an article on “Teaching Rape, Slavery, and Genocide in Bible and Culture” for the book Rape Culture and Religious Studies (2019). He first monograph, Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives (2009) examined constructions of gender, ethnicity, and theology in rabbinic literature. She is currently working on her second monograph, The Crooked and the Straight: Queer Theory and Rabbinic Literature. 

 

FRIDAY NIGHT PRIDE
FRIDAY, JUNE 19

6:00 PM: Come explore LGBTQ PRIDE with a special family JAM. The program, emceed by teens Zivia Avelin, Toby Kessler Cohen, Sol Pinsky Elsila, Yossi Ravital, Yael Smith Posner, Sadie Wade, and Dasi Weinmartin, begins on Zoom at 6:00 PM, and will feature special events led by Serena Levingston, Chana Rothman, and Rabbi Rebecca Richman.

SCHEDULE:

  • Welcome! with Dasi, Sadie, Sol, Toby, Yael, Yossi, and Zivia
  • Friday Night PRIDE video slideshow
  • All About the Rainbow by Dasi and Toby
  • Rainbow Scavenger Hunt with Serena Levingston
  • Pride Flags & Their Meanings by Sadie, Yael, and Yossi
  • Pride Fashion Show & Parade with Chana Rothman
  • The Stonewall Riots – A Piece of LGBTQ History by Sol and Zivia
  • Family Pride JAM with Chana Rothman and Rabbi Rebecca Richman

JOIN:

 

TAKING PRIDE: STORY SHARING BY LGBTQ MEMBERS OF GJC
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 AT 11:00 AM

Join us for an intimate hour and special opportunity to hear personal stories of life-shaping moments on the LGBTQ journey. A special opportunity for honoring and supporting the diversity and commonality of the human LGBTQ experience.

 

Germantown Jewish Centre extends much thanks, love, and gratitude to the following people who have given their time and energy into shaping Pride@GJC and to those volunteering to share their reflections during the programs:  Adina Abramowitz, Zivia Avelin, Hazzan Naomi Hirsch, Andrea Jacobs, Gwynn Kessler, Toby Kessler Cohen, Naomi Klayman, Serena Levingston, Ruth Loew, Sol Pinsky Elsila, Rabbi Malkah Binah Klein, Neysa Nevins, Maria Pulzetti, Yossi Ravital, Chana Rothman, Yael Smith Posner, Rabbi Erica Steelman, Rabbi Robert Tabak, Sadie Wade, Dasi Weinmartin, and countless others who are LGBTQ+, allies, and advocates.

Germantown Jewish Centre would like to extend thanks and gratitude to Michael Beer for his support of Pride programming at GJC.

GJC also extends thanks, gratitude, and appreciation to the Harold & Renee Berger Family Engagement Endowment Fund for supporting the Friday Night PRIDE Family & Kids JAM, and all JAM programming at GJC.

Germantown Jewish Centre extends thanks and gratitude always to the Wolfe Family Foundation for their generous support in all GJC programming.

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