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Sunday, December 8 • 3:35pm - 4:40pm
Here, Queer and Machmir: Orthodox Life in the LGBT Community

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Sponsored by Mosaic of Westchester - Enriching our Jewish Community through LGBTQ Inclusion.

How can the Orthodox community be more inclusive of the LGBT members of the community? How can Orthodox feminists and Orthodox LGBTs work together as allies? How can parents of LGBT children and others create a more inclusive, open and welcoming environment for LGBT individuals and their families? This session will explore the ways in which the feminist and LGBT communities can learn from each other and work together to create a more inclusive Orthodox community. 


Moderators
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Diane Werner

Diane Werner is the Founding Chair of Mosaic of Westchester, a new initiative working for the full integration of LGBTQ Jews into Westchester Jewish life. Mosaic's work is guided by the conviction that becoming truly LGBTQ inclusive enriches our entire Jewish community by making us... Read More →

Speakers
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Rabbi Steve Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL, a think tank, leadership training institute and resource center and is the Director of the CLAL Diversity Project. He is the author of the book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University... Read More →
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Viva Hammer

Viva Hammer moved to New York two days after finishing law school in Sydney. She founded the first women’s tefila group in Australia and in New York participated in as many of these groups as she could. She advocated for individual agunot, and founded the Wedding Resource Center... Read More →
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Miryam Kabakov

Miryam Kabakov is an Executive Director of Eshel, an organization which fosters LGBT inclusion in the Orthodox world by creating community for Orthodox LGBT people, and by galvanizing Orthodox LGBT people and their families across the nation to advocate on behalf of LGBT community... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2013 3:35pm - 4:40pm EST
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