Date: November 12, 2015 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/rough-night-for-everyone/ Student protestors from the LGBT campus group TALQ Big disrupted a film screening at the Goucher College Hillel last week, claiming the event was ignoring larger issues about Israel. Israeli television personality and LGBT rights advocate Assi Azar was invited to Hillel to screen his movie “Mom, Dad, I Have … Read More
Filmmaker’s Presentation Met with Protest: Goucher Hillel
Date: November 8, 2015 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/filmmakers-presentation-met-with-protest/ Assi Azar, photo from: A Wider Bridge, screen shot. Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted an Israeli television personality and LGBT rights advocate who had come to Goucher College last week to screen a film addressing how parents cope with their children coming out as gay. According to the Israeli speaker, Assi Azar, … Read More
Neely Tal Snyder, program director at Pearlstone Center, dies – Baltimore Sun
Date: August 19, 2015 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-neely-snyder-20150819-story.html Neely Tal Snyder was program director at the Pearlstone Center and a founder of JQ Baltimore, a Jewish LGBTQ outreach and support organization. (Baltimore Sun) Neely Tal Snyder, program director at the Pearlstone Center and a founder of JQ Baltimore, a Jewish LGBTQ outreach and support organization, was killed Aug. 10 … Read More
Neely Tal Snyder Remembered for Dedication, Passion – Baltimore Jewish Times
Date: August 13, 2015 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/neely-tal-snyder-remembered-for-dedication-passion/ Although her life was cut short, Neely Tal Snyder’s impact was felt in Baltimore’s Jewish community and beyond. The wife, mother of three daughters, advocate and educator died in a car crash Monday morning at the age of 37. “She felt so strongly about the things that were important to … Read More
Coming Together: Y-Love – Baltimore Jewish Times
Date: July 30, 2015 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/coming-together-3/ Yitz Jordan, also known as Y-love, speaks about his experiences coming out as a gay man at Enoch Pratt Public Library in Baltimore City. (Justin Katz) !https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/303c9514-dc68-4fb8-a007-3175fc8a7a23/073115_ylove.jpg Yitz Jordan, whose stage name is Y-love, has seen hate, prejudice and racism throughout his life, but when he and several other LGBT … Read More
A good year for LGBT pride, in Baltimore and elsewhere
Date: July 23, 2015 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-ae-pride-sidebar-lillerqa-20150723-story.html Paul Liller, acting executive director of the GLCCB. (Kevin Rector / The Baltimore SunPaul Liller, 33, is deputy director and, since earlier this month, acting executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB), producers of the annual Baltimore Pride celebration. With preparations for … Read More
Opening Our Eyes
Date: April 16, 2015 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/opening-our-eyes/ With the Supreme Court due to take up the hotly contested issue of marriage equality later this month, reactions to the phenomenon of same-sex unions have ranged from the thoughtful — National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” began a series on the topic this week by engaging rank-and-file North Dakotans in … Read More
Out in the Open – Baltimore Jewish Times
Date: April 16, 2015 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/out-in-the-open/ Miryam Kabakov and Rabbi Steve Greenberg are co-founders and co-directors of Eshel, which provides support, education and advocacy for LGBT Orthodox Jews and their families. (Photos Provided) It’s no doubt at the forefront of the minds of the approximately 45 attendees at this weekend’s Eshel retreat — designed to support … Read More
Looking Out: Baltimore faith groups plan Seder with LGBT liberation in mind
Date: March 12, 2015 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-gm-looking-out-baltimore-faith-groups-plan-seder-with-lgbt-liberation-in-mind-20150312-story.html Looking Out: Baltimore faith groups plan Seder with LGBT liberation in mind bs-gm-looking-out-baltimore-faith-groups-plan-seder-with-lgbt-liberation-in-mind-20150312 If the Jewish ritual of Seder is at its core about liberation, why not the liberation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people from the constraints of social discrimination? That’s the question posed by organizers of Baltimore’s … Read More
Jewish group to host two events
Date: October 7, 2014 Source: Washington Blade URL: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/10/07/jewish-group-host-two-events/ Jewish group to host two events JQ Baltimore, an organization that works to make Baltimore a welcoming community for Jewish LGBT individuals, families and allies, will host two events. On Oct. 25, there will be a Rainbow Shabbat—a vegetarian potluck dinner and Havdalah Service in honor of Noah and the Ark. … Read More