San Francisco provides new trans services

A city-funded employment program was launched this week in San Francisco in collaboration with the LGBT Community Center, Jewish Vocational Services, and the Transgender Law Center. The program will provide employment services for the transgender community and employer training and support services. Jewish Mosaic provided diversity training to the entire staff of Jewish Vocational Services in advance of this week’s launch. To read an article about the project from the The Bay Area Reporter, please visit: www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1977

Jerusalem holds Pride Parade

On Thursday, the pride parade was held in Jerusalem as planned, despite weeks of violent protests and petitions. Some 2,000 participants, secured by 7,000 policemen, marched through Jerusalem’s streets to promote tolerance on LGBT rights. Police arrested approximately 20 protestors of the parade, including a man carrying a makeshift bomb. To read an article about the event from Ynetnews, please visit: www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3415938,00.html

Transgender Celebration Shabbat—

San Francisco On June 1st-2nd Congregation Sha’ar Zahav will be holding a series of events in celebration of the transgender and gender-queer community to kick off Pride month. For more information, please visit: www.jewishmosaic.org/page/load_page/73

Transgender Celebration Shabbat—San Francisco On June 1st-2nd Congregation Sha’ar Zahav will be holding a series of events in celebration of the transgender and gender-queer community to kick off Pride month. For more information, please visit: www.jewishmosaic.org/page/load_page/73

Transgender Celebration Shabbat—San Francisco

On June 1st-2nd Congregation Sha’ar Zahav will be holding a series of events in celebration of the transgender and gender-queer community to kick off Pride month. For more information, please visit: www.jewishmosaic.org/page/load_page/73

Trans/Gender-Queer Jewish Wedding Service

Did you know that Jewish Mosaic’s LGBT Resource Library contains innovative rituals addressing the needs of LGBT folks? One example is the Trans/Gender-Queer Jewish Wedding Service created by Rabbi Elliot Kukla. To read this liturgy and to access more than 150 other documents on Jewish responses to LGBT issues, please visit: www.jewishmosaic.org/resources/show_resource/169

transgender event news

Transgender Celebration Shabbat—San Francisco On June 1st-2nd Congregation Sha’ar Zahav will be holding a series of events in celebration of the transgender and gender-queer community to kick off Pride month. For more information, please visit: www.jewishmosaic.org/page/load_page/73

Jewish Mosaic internship Jewish Mosaic has created a new internship program for undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in exploring career options within Jewish communal organizations, and who want to make a difference within the LGBT Jewish community. Interns will work in our Denver office for at least 8-10 hours per week. For more information, please visit: www.jewishmosaic.org/page/news or email info@jewishmosaic.org.

Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 – Not about homosexuality? Rabbi David Greenstein, Rosh Ha-Yeshiva of the Academy for Jewish Religion, presents a new interpretation of the infamous Leviticus verses in this week’s Torah Queeries essay. He writes, “I submit that we may read these verses in a new way, a way that removes them entirely from the topic of homosexuality.” To read the entire essay, please visit: www.jewishmosaic.org/torah/show_torah/72

finally a thought that matters

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It’s a Created Being of its Own In this week’s Torah Queeries essay, “Created by the Hand of Heaven: A Jewish Approach to Intersexuality,” Rabbi Elliot Kulka and rabbinical student Reuben Zellman discuss the rabbinic tradition surrounding intersex people. They write, “Jewish tradition recognizes that intersexuality is part of the beauty of the created world. . . .We must insist upon telling the full truth about the diversity of God’s creation.” To read the entire essay, please visit: http://www.jewishmosaic.org/torah/show_torah/71
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