Announcements

Please join us on Shabbat Vayetzei, December 9-10, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL. This Shabbaton includes Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:15 PM, a Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required), a lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome), Shabbat morning sermon, and a discussion at Seudah Shelishit.

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, December 6.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule

Friday Night, 7:30 PM: "New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: "Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:35 PM: "The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg
 

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is the Co-Director of Eshel, a support, education and advocacy organization for LGBT Orthodox Jews and their families. As well, he is on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. In 2001 he appeared in Trembling Before G-d, a documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, and joined the film maker, Sandi DuBowski, carrying the film across the globe as a tool for dialogue. He is the author of the award winning book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) and currently lives with his partner Steven Goldstein and daughter Amalia in Boston.