Queer Judaism in Israel: The Battle for Judaism's Straight Soul

​Speaker: Professor Orit Avishai

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​About the Talk:
Until fairly recently, Orthodox Jews could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold. But in Israel, within the span of about a decade and a half, Orthodox LGBT people had forged social circles and communities and became much more visible. This has been a remarkable shift in a relatively short time span. Queer Judaism offers the compelling story of how Jewish LGBT persons in Israel created new modes of being an Orthodox Jew and an effective social movement, in the process both challenging and aligning with Jewish Orthodoxy.