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
In this talk, Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski will present an interpretation of Eicha that is informed by trauma theory in biblical studies. She will pay particular attention to the embodied experiences of Zion, of the narrator, and of contemporary readers of this liturgical text. Dr. Kamionkowski is Professor for Biblical Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
sponsored by Tikkun Olam@GJC, and facilitated by Rabbi Tamara Cohen and Gary King Alongside filmmaker Hannah Roodman and IOWA Ovdim cohort member and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice organizer Yehudah Webster, The IOWA Project has been creating a short film about last summer's 40 Days of Teshuva protest. This action is a powerful example of
HAZAK, Men's Club, and Women of GJC present their annual Welcome Back Program (Zoom) Please join Men's Club, Women of GJC, and HAZAK on Zoom for their “Welcome Back” and presentation by Dave Davies on Inside NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Dave, a contributor and frequent host for the show, will talk about how
POWER: How To Get Involved! with Lilah Saber & POWER Campaign Leaders sponsored by Tikkun Olam@GJC GJC is PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF POWER INTERFAITH! Wondering What POWER’s Doing These Days? POWER launched in 2011 with a bold moral vision to confront injustice by bringing together thousands of Philadelphians across lines of race, class, neighborhood
with Rabbi Haim Shalom and Dr. Debbie Weissman, moderated by Rabbi Adam Zeff, and sponsored by Israel Programming@GJC What is Judaism really about? How can we understand Torah? In parashat B'reishit (Genesis 1), God creates all human beings to be equal. In parashat Lech L'cha (Genesis 12), God uniquely gives the Land of Israel to
HAZAK & Israel Programming at GJC present "Shtisel: A Discussion in Two Parts," facilitated by Howard Spodek, Professor Emeritus of World History at Temple University and Shtisel devotee Whether you liked it or not so much, “Shtisel” is worth talking about on many levels, and Howard is prepared to delve into all of them. During
Women of GJC present OPEN SESAME: THE SOOM TAHINI STORY with Amy Zitelman, CEO of SOOM Foods Meet Amy Zitelman, the CEO of SOOM Foods, and hear how she and her sisters created their successful importing business in 2012 that offers outstanding Tahini products in US markets. Based in Philadelphia, SOOM sources sesame seeds in
Join the Women of GJC for our own Rina Rosenberg’s personal anecdotes as a Jew growing up and living in London interwoven with moments of the long history of Jews in London. From the Jews expulsion in the 13th Century through the establishment of the Jews’ Free School in 1822 to compelling stories from today,
You are invited to join the Women of Germantown Jewish Centre (Women of GJC) via Zoom to hear the complicated and compelling 100-year plus history of the Abayudaya (Jews) of Uganda. The second of WGJC’s Jews Around the World programs will be presented by Dr. Ellen Frankel, publisher and editor (former Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the
