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Parashat Vayishlach “Hey Yaacov, Someone’s Calling your Name!” “If it isn’t Yisrael, I’m not Home.” by Zvi Bellin on Friday December 12, 2008 15 Kislev 5769 Genesis 32:4 – 36:43 I never realized this before, but Yaacov is renamed twice in this portion. Both times his new name is…
Read moreA Guide for LGBTQ+ Belonging for Jewish Day Schools Below you will find several suggestions for how to make your Jewish day school a more inclusive, welcoming, and safe environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students, and those who have LGBTQ+ parents and family members. These suggestions are…
Read moreParashat Bo Who Would Moses Marry? by Amy Soule on Friday January 30, 2009 5 Shevat 5769 Exodus 10:1 – 13:16 So Moses and Aaron returned to Pharaoh. He said to them, “Go on! Worship your God! Who are the ones to go?” Moses replied “We will all go,…
Read moreParashat Be’Ha’alotekha Miriam: Speaking Truth to Power by Rachel Biale on Saturday June 02, 2007 16 Sivan 5767 Numbers 8:1–12:16, Shabbat This week’s parasha contains perhaps the most audacious challenge to male authority recorded in the Torah: “And Miriam, and Aaron with her, spoke against Moses concerning the Cushite…
Read moreParashat Matot and Parashat Masei Vows and Thou [Reprinted from 2009] by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser on Friday July 09, 2010 27 Tammuz 5770 Numbers 30:2 – 32:42 and Numbers 33:1 – 36:13 At the close of Bamidbar/Numbers, the fourth book of Torah and the last book of the…
Read moreParashat Chayei Sarah When Gender Varies: A Curious Case of Kree and Kteev by Rachel Brodie on Friday November 02, 2007 21 Cheshvan 5768 Genesis 23.1-25.18, Shabbat “In the Bible, women are rarely born, they almost never die and when they give birth it is usually to a boy.” With…
Read moreParashat Vayechi Uncovering Joseph’s Bones by Rabbi Jill Hammer on Saturday January 06, 2007 16 Tevet 5767 Genesis 47:28 – 50:26, Shabbat Joseph is a popular biblical character to “queer” — because rabbinic midrash claims he curls his hair, paints his eyes, and is as beautiful as his mother,…
Read moreParshat Vayeshev To speak out without shaming the Other by Cynthia Hoffman on Friday December 11, 2009 25 Kislev 5770 Genesis 37:1 – 40:23 Parshat Vayeshev is loaded with famous bible stories that also get picked up in pop culture. Vayeshev contains: Joseph and his [Technicolor Dream] tunic; Joseph…
Read moreParashat Shof’tim The Holiness of Judgment and the Power of Witnessing by Karen Erlichman on Friday September 05, 2008 5 Elul 5768 [reprint] Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9 This Torah Queery was originally published on Thursday August 16, 2007 Baruch Dayan Emet This is an abbreviated version of the blessing…
Read moreParashat B’midbar The Gift of the Wilderness by Alex Carter on Friday May 30, 2008 25 Iyar 5768 Numbers 1:1 – 4:20 This week’s parsha, B’midbar, begins, as many parshiyot begin, with the words, “G-d spoke to Moses…” But this week, it specifies that G-d spoke to Moses “in…
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