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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]