Join us for Pride Shabbat, where we will honor and celebrate the vibrant queer thread that runs through the amazing tapestry that is our community of communities. Following services, we invite you to continue the joyful feeling with an outdoor kiddush by Centre Catering with a centerpiece that celebrates our beautiful diversity. Germantown Jewish Centre
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. 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
PRIDE Shabbat with Gwynn Kessler,Swarthmore College, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of the Beit Midrash 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
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!
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. Join via smartphone, tablet, or computer: Use this zoom link. Join via telephone: Dial 646-876-9923, and use meeting
6:00 PM.......GJC Teen PRIDE featuring Levanah Cohen, Toby Kessler Cohen, Oliver Kraut, Serena Levingston, Sol Pinsky Elsila, Yael Smith Posner, Sadie Wade, and Hadassah Weinmartin Begin PRIDE month with the teens of Germantown Jewish Centre, coordinated by Serena Levingston and Dasi Weinmartin. Dialogue, discussion, skits, slideshows, and more - you are bound to learn something
Join us under the rainbow arch for the Charry Service! Masks are required and social distancing encouraged. D'var Torah by Maria Pulzetti - A Thread of Blue: Tzitzit from a Queer Perspective. This week’s Torah reading concludes with the mitzvah of tzitzit (fringes), which we are commanded to put on the corners of our garments.
Dorshei Derekh is a weekly member-led Reconstructionist minyan that puts an emphasis on singing, with a full P’sukei d’Zimra (preliminary service), and interactive discussion during the d’var Torah. The minyan is currently meeting over Zoom, and all roles in the service are coordinated and filled by members, who also organize social activities, study, and celebrations
This weekly member-led traditional egalitarian minyan puts an emphasis on a complete traditional prayer service, with repetition of the Amidah in Shacharit and a full Torah reading. The minyan is currently meeting on Zoom, and all roles in the service are coordinated and filled by members, who also organize social activities, study, and celebrations throughout
Explore the queer Jewish past in the United States with Dr. Gregg Drinkwater, a scholar of queer Jewish history and a longtime advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in the Jewish world. In this online talk, we’ll discuss these and other questions: When did Jewish sexual and gender minorities in the United States forge identities as LGBTQ
