Rabbi Steve Greenberg spoke at Limmud-Oz in Sydney, Australia on June 10. “I AM attracted to both men and women. What do I do?” Steve Greenberg asked Israeli Charedi Rabbi Yosef Eliashiv when he was studying at yeshivah. He was expecting the traditional halachic response – that homosexuality is banned in the Torah because same-sex […]
Steven Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, will visit Kent State University on Monday to spread the message of inclusion and diversity in collaboration with Hillel and the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. Tomer Yechezkel, an Israel fellow at Hillel, arranged for Greenberg to speak with students in the University Library’s Garden Room at 6 […]
From Stonewall to 2014’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states — also in June — Jews have been at the forefront of the fight for LGBTQ rights. JTA lists nine of the most influential Jews who have helped make LGBTQ issues visible and are still working to enact change. Jazz Jennings […]
This weekend, Eshel hosts its third annual retreat with the theme of “Family,” hoping to can be a source of support to parents who are newer at dealing with LGBT child issues. It’s no doubt at the forefront of the minds of the approximately 45 attendees at this weekend’s Eshel retreat — designed to support […]
NEW INTERVIEW: Steve Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, explains to Moment Magazine the past three decades’ shift in the Orthodox world in understanding of homosexuality and its relation to changing American attitudes Same-sex rights proponents suffered an unusual loss this week when a federal judge in Louisiana upheld the state’s ban on gay marriage, […]
Eshel has formed a discussion group for orthodox Jewish parents of LGBT children in the Baltimore-D.C. area. The next meeting will take place in Pikesville on Sept. 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. To RSVP and to obtain exact location, write to info@eshelonline.org. As part of its mission, Eshel trains its members during weekend […]
UK Rabbi Zvi Solomons wrote a personal column in the Jewish Chronicle, saying that marrying gay and lesbian couples can only increase divisions between Progressive and Orthodox Three years ago the internet was awash with pictures of two frum Jewish men under a chupah in New York, wearing white kittels. The headlines screamed that this was […]
Gay Rabbi Steve Greenberg recounted his story of coming to terms with being gay in the Orthodox Jewish tradition Wednesday at an IU Hillel-sponsored event. After beginning to identify as a gay man in 1999, Rabbi Steve Greenberg felt like a “duck-billed platypus” — it was an unthinkable scenario. However, the author and teacher learned […]