Over the past year, CBST has become increasingly involved in addressing the epidemic of LGBTQ youth homelessness. Rabbi Kleinbaum served on the New York City Commission on LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth and Koleinu’s LGBT Rights Action Team began meeting with organizations like FIERCE, the Ali Forney Center, and the Hetrick-Martin Institute to build relationship with these organizations and learn more about the underlying issues causing the epidemic. CBST also organized and hosted our annual Martin Luther King Multifaith Celebration around this issue and collaboratively developed mutlifaith liturgy to express our religious and spiritual concerns and hopes for the ...
On Yom Kippur, over thirty people gathered during the break between Musaf and Mincha to discuss LGBTQ youth homelessness and the Ne’ilah liturgy—the closing gates. “Be for them a shelter, and rescue them from terror, Seal them for honor and joy, at the hour of the locking.”
The discussion was lively and reflected the work that CBST has been doing around this issue—including the Mutlifaith Martin Luther King Jr. service we had this past year, Rabbi Kleinbaum serving on Mayor Bloomberg’s Commission on LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth, and most recently, the Koleinu action team’s decision to develop a campaign to ...
For the past two years, CBST members have been engaged in the process of Congregation Based Community Organizing . They’ve conducted a listening campaign, developed two actions teams, had a two Koleinu shabbatot, hosted a report back to the community, conducted research meetings with seven different community-based organizations, and launched their first campaign. Now, the Healthcare/Eldercare Action Team is in full swing as they are gearing up to target care institutions in the city to better serve LGBTQ individuals.
What does this mean? Under the leadership of the Healthcare/Eldercare co-chairs, Maryann King and Paul Marsolini, Koleinu members will be ...
Welcome to CBST’s new social justice blog! Along with the fabulous redesign of our website, CBST will now be offering regular updates on different social justice events and topics both in CBST and beyond. We will have regular updates from Koleinu, our Congregation Based Community Organizing initiative, as well as our exciting work in building a Jewish LGBTQ movement, like Rabbi Kleinbaum and I attending the National Jewish LGBT Movement Building Convening in Berkeley a few weeks ago. We’ll also discuss hot social justice topics in the world at large, like the conversion bill in the Knesset or same-sex marriage ...
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