Nehirim http://www.nehirim.org GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:48:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 lisa-finkelstein http://www.nehirim.org/lisa-finkelstein http://www.nehirim.org/lisa-finkelstein#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:15:36 +0000 margaret http://www.nehirim.org/lisa-finkelstein http://www.nehirim.org/lisa-finkelstein/feed 0 andrew-ramer http://www.nehirim.org/andrew-ramer http://www.nehirim.org/andrew-ramer#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:15:16 +0000 Esther Smigel http://www.nehirim.org/andrew-ramer http://www.nehirim.org/andrew-ramer/feed 0 Gay Jewish Poetry Reading in Philadelphia http://www.nehirim.org/philadelphia2010 http://www.nehirim.org/philadelphia2010#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:24:04 +0000 Jay Michaelson http://www.nehirim.org/?p=1374 Join Nehirim at Giovanni’s Room, the historic gay bookstore in Philadelphia, for a poetry performance by Nehirim’s executive director, Jay Michaelson, and longtime faculty member Rabbi Jacob Staub.

Jay will read, shout, and declaim poetry from Another Word for Sky, his first collection of poetry.   Like the author, the poems run the gamut: from Ashbery-like analytics to raucous queer mystical love poems, Ginsbergesque rants and fantasies to quiet reflections on the passage of time. A recent finalist for the Koret Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award, Michaelson has performed his work (often with drum and musical accompaniment) at CBGB, Burning Man, the Bowery Poetry Club, and dozens of university campuses around the country.  His work will be complemented by some of Jacob Staub’s queer midrash and exploration of the intersections between spiritual and romantic love.

Sunday, March 21, 530-7pm

Giovanni’s Room
345 South 12th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

No advance tickets available; come early as the bookstore is small!

]]> http://www.nehirim.org/philadelphia2010/feed 0 Jay Michaelson http://www.nehirim.org/jay-michaelson http://www.nehirim.org/jay-michaelson#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:02:19 +0000 simon http://www.nehirim.org/jay-michaelson Jay Michaelson is the founder and executive director of Nehirim. For the last ten years, Jay has been a leading advocate for the inclusion of sexual minorities in religious communities, and writes and teaches frequently on issues of sexuality and religion. His work on the subject has appeared on NPR, and in Tikkun, the Jerusalem Post, the Duke Law Review, the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, and anthologies including Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer (2004), Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice(2007) and Jews and Sex (2008). Jay is a columnist for the Forward newspaper and Reality Sandwich magazine, a featured contributor to the Huffington Post. He is the author of God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (Jewish Lights, 2006) and Another Word for Sky: Poems (Lethe Press, 2007). His next book is Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism (Shambhala, 2009).

]]> http://www.nehirim.org/jay-michaelson/feed 0 Two Generations, One Movement http://www.nehirim.org/two-generations-one-movement http://www.nehirim.org/two-generations-one-movement#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:54:18 +0000 Esther Smigel http://www.nehirim.org/?p=1331 Roy Bateman is a 56-year-old gay man living in San Francisco, the Mecca of American social activism. He is about as socially conscious as they come, especially when it comes to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) causes.  And yet he said this past October’s National Equality March, which organizers say drew a crowd of 150,000 in support of LGBT equality, barely made his radar. How can this be?

In part, it may be because the march was largely the work of a new, younger generation of LGBT activists.  Jay Michaelson, executive director of Nehirim, a nonprofit organization that focuses on LGBT issues in the Jewish community, said that the march had a distinctly youthful quality. He compared the march’s organization to that of the Obama campaign. “There was a lot of use of social media and a lot of grassroots organizing, as a opposed to sort of a more top down approach,” he said. The march also had an anti-establishment bent. “There was a kind of useful rebellious energy that was at the march. And then the rhetoric that was used at the march, the way it was constructed, and even the idea of having a march at all, it wasn’t necessarily establishment politics,” said Michaelson.

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Blog of Samantha Hermann at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

]]> http://www.nehirim.org/two-generations-one-movement/feed 0 GLBT Trip to see Fiddler on The Roof in San Francisco http://www.nehirim.org/glbt-trip-to-see-fiddler-on-the-roof-in-san-francisco http://www.nehirim.org/glbt-trip-to-see-fiddler-on-the-roof-in-san-francisco#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:50:19 +0000 zvi http://www.nehirim.org/?p=1306 The LGBT Alliance of the San Francisco Jewish Federation presents:

A GLBT Trip to see Fiddler on The Roof with Harvey Fierstein in San Francisco
co-sponsored by Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality

Friday, February 19th @ 8pm
Golden Gate Theater
1 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

http://www.shnsf.com/shows/show.asp?key=18&subkey=1177

We currently have 15 subsidized tickets at $36 dollars/person, $14 dollars off of the regular ticket price. To reserve now and for further details, contact Lisa Finklestein at LisaF@sfjcf.org

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‘Jews on Vinyl’ Exhibit





Please join Nehirim Bay Area GLBT Jews, partners, and allies for an
exciting urban adventure to see the ‘Jews on Vinyl’ exhibit at the
Contemporary Jewish Museum. We will meet outside the main doors on
Mission Street at one pm and explore the renowned, kitschy, and
thought-provoking exhibit together, with plenty of time to have coffee
and schmooze after. To RSVP and for other questions or concerns, contact
Sasha T. Goldberg, Nehirim’s Bay Area Assistant Director for more
details: STG@Nehirim.org

Date: Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Time: 1pm
Location:
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 655-7800
Cost: $10 per person, $8 per senior and/or student

For more information, visit the Contemporary Jewish Museum website:
http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=detail&oid=40 .

]]> http://www.nehirim.org/jews_do_vinyl/feed 0 Report on Sexuality and Scripture workshop http://www.nehirim.org/report-on-sexuality-and-scripture-workshop-2 http://www.nehirim.org/report-on-sexuality-and-scripture-workshop-2#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:32:45 +0000 simon http://www.nehirim.org/?p=1259 Report on Sexuality and Scripture workshop in Albany, NY (mp3)
NPR, May 24, 2005

]]> http://www.nehirim.org/report-on-sexuality-and-scripture-workshop-2/feed 0 Sacred Sexuality: An Interview with Jay Michaelson http://www.nehirim.org/sacred-sexuality-an-interview-with-jay-michaelson-2 http://www.nehirim.org/sacred-sexuality-an-interview-with-jay-michaelson-2#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:31:02 +0000 simon http://www.nehirim.org/?p=1255 JVoices.com, February 20, 2007
…”What were about is this: how you love matters to how you do religion, and so queers are going to be Jewish in ways that are new, different, and enriching for everybody. We want to figure out what those are”…

]]> http://www.nehirim.org/sacred-sexuality-an-interview-with-jay-michaelson-2/feed 0 25 Rabbis Walk into a Room… http://www.nehirim.org/25-rabbis-walk-into-a-room-2 http://www.nehirim.org/25-rabbis-walk-into-a-room-2#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:29:57 +0000 simon http://www.nehirim.org/?p=1251 The Advocate, September 17, 2007
…says Jay Michaelson, a gay observant Jew whose most recent book, God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice, explores the intersection of sexuality and religion. “The idea that the somewhat religious people now say its OK to be gay, and that God doesnt hate fags after all,” he says, “sends a powerful message to all faith communities”…

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