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Tag: Passover

Finding my modern meaning of Passover

Posted April 18, 2019April 29, 2019 RonitPosted in A Wider Blog, NEWS, News About A Wider Bridge

Over the last month, I have been flooded with warm wishes by the A Wider Bridge community. I thank each and every one of you for making me feel at home. This Passover, I am reflecting on another homecoming. In June, I will travel to Israel for the first time in a decade with AWB’s […]

Six Ways to Make Passover More Inclusive

Posted March 30, 2018April 8, 2018 RonitPosted in home views, VIEWS, Views From North America

On Friday night, Jews around the world will sit down to celebrate the start of Passover, a weeklong holiday commemorating the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible in the book of Exodus. Tradition welcomes all – Jews and non-Jews alike – to the seder. Here are six easy […]

American Drag Race Star to Perform in Tel Aviv on Passover

Posted March 14, 2018 RonitPosted in home news, NEWS, News from Israel

International drag superstar Shangela will be performing a one-time, first of its kind show in Tel Aviv in April. Shangela, who stars in the current season of RuPaul Drag Race: All Stars, will perform as part of a Passover production of the gay party line PURE at the three-floored Duplex Club in Tel Aviv. The […]

The Seder, Through The Eyes Of A Racist Slave Owner

Posted April 9, 2017August 11, 2017 Yanir DekelPosted in home views, NEWS, News from America, VIEWS, Views From North America

A role in a film about the antebellum South shaped the Passover experience for gay, Jewish actor Jason Stuart At my Mom’s Passover seder this year, a Fifth Question, with a personal touch, will occur to me: How did the liberal, openly gay son of a Holocaust survivor come to play a white, heterosexual, racist, […]

Four Questions About LGBTQ Liberation

Posted April 9, 2017April 19, 2017 Yanir DekelPosted in Home Posts, NEWS, News from America

Marginalization, homophobia and transphobia still plague our world. Why is LGBTQ liberation a part of our Passover story, tonight? Every year on Passover, we explore the meaning of mitzrayim, meaning “narrow place,” and are asked to consider in what ways we may find ourselves in mitzrayim in our own lives, and in the world today. […]

A New Passover Ritual Honoring Jewish Diversity

Posted April 9, 2017April 7, 2017 Yanir DekelPosted in home news, NEWS, News from America

A new ritual—Ruth’s Cup—may be added after Elijah’s Cup or anywhere in the seder. Mitzrayim, the Hebrew word for Egypt, is also interpreted to mean “narrow places.” At Passover, we celebrate being released from the restrictions that limit us and make our lives smaller. We are not fully free as long as we are kept […]

As a Gay, Orthodox Jew, I Always Thought I Was Passover’s Wicked Son

Posted April 29, 2016April 28, 2016 Yanir DekelPosted in Global Views, home views, NEWS, News from Israel, VIEWS

Benjamin Ellis, co-director of Jewish LGBT advocacy group Keshet UK, realized that he was the child who didn’t know how to ask – because his community didn’t know how to answer. I never knew which child I was. Every year at the Passover seder, we read the allegory of the four sons. Growing up in […]

Members of LGBT community reflect on Passover’s meaning

Posted April 28, 2016September 1, 2017 Yanir DekelPosted in NEWS, News from America

The Passover holiday, which commemorates the Jewish escape from slavery in Egypt, is a time for members of Michigan’s Jewish community to not only look back to the past, but to look at the present as well. “The Passover narrative reminds us not only to retell the story of the Exodus, but it’s also about […]

“I Came Out at the Seder, My Mom Ran Out”

Posted April 26, 2016April 28, 2016 Yanir DekelPosted in NEWS, News from Israel

The Israeli website AskPeople allows users to upload personal questions and consult with other users, anonymously. On Passover day a question from a 27 year old woman was uploaded, where she tells how she came out to her family during the Passover Seder. “This is without doubt the shortest Seder I’ve had. The time is […]

This Black, Queer, Trans Jew Is Reimagining Passover

Posted April 26, 2016September 1, 2017 Yanir DekelPosted in NEWS

K.B. Frazier, who identifies as a “freedom-fighting black, trans, queer Jew” from St. Louis, Missouri, believes there’s a close connection between the story of Passover and the movement for black lives. “It is essentially the same story, of people who were enslaved and came to be released from slavery,” Frazier told The Huffington Post. “The […]

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