As the CBST community assembled for Tikkun Leyl Shavuot and prepared to receive Torah, we examined the epidemic of queer youth homelessness through a Jewish lens. For me, the tikkun was inspiring as it created a space in which our religious practice and social justice work could come together, each informing the other.
Members of our Koleinu Marriage Equality & LGBT Rights Action Team led the first session. Our text study, based on excerpts from the Book of Ruth, focused on the complex experience of journeying to or from a home -- what does it mean to have or not have ...
Well, it turns out that the world-infamous Muslim Community Center which has been proposed for Lower Manhattan is already active -- in fact, several queer Jews entered the site, discussed Torah with Muslims and Christians, and left with smiles on their faces!
I had the honor of representing CBST as a teacher at an interfaith text study organized by our partners at Religious Freedom USA . About thirty people--including lay leaders of the Muslim congregation that has prayed in the Park51 building for years--gathered in small groups studying texts from Torah and midrash, the Koran, and the ...
