Good Afternoon, The Board of JPride Baltimore is pleased to share its list of 2023 grantees. Our grants committee task force reviews projects throughout the year proposed by local charitable orgs, with an average award of $500-$1,000. No more than $9,000 is awarded in a calendar year. Our fund is a donor advised fund of the Associated. Some grantees’ activities … Read More
LGBTQ Jewish artists show pride at Queer Jewish Arts Festival
Date: June 3, 2022 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/lgbtq-jewish-artists-show-pride-at-queer-jewish-arts-festival/ LGBTQ Jewish artists show pride at Queer Jewish Arts Festival !https://www.jewishtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Abbi-Gezunt-performing.jpg The Gordon Center for Performing Arts is gearing up to host its second annual Queer Jewish Arts Festival. Sponsored by the Grandchildren of Harvey M. & Lyn P. Meyerhoff Philanthropic Fund, the festival, from June 16-26, aims to celebrate … Read More
Baltimore’s Annual LGBTQ Community Seder to Take Place Virtually this Year
Date: March 19, 2021 Source: Jmore URL: https://jmoreliving.com/2021/03/19/baltimores-annual-lgbtq-community-seder-to-take-place-virtually-this-year/ Marc Wernick is one of the organizers of this year’s LGBTQ seder in Baltimore: “We’ve opened our tent wider, and it’s made it easier for more people to attend.” (Provided photo) Last Passover, organizers of Baltimore’s LGBTQ Community Seder were forced to cancel the annual gathering due to the COVID-19 virus. But … Read More
Baltimore’s Jewish Community LGBTQ Group Faces a Hazy Future – JMORE
Date: May 16, 2019 Source: Jmore URL: https://jmoreliving.com/2019/05/16/baltimores-jewish-community-lgbtq-group-faces-a-hazy-future/ Baltimore’s Jewish Community LGBTQ Group Faces a Hazy Future – JMORE !https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/3878675e-eeb5-4374-8c6c-a258274d0825/jpride.jpg Shown at a recent gathering are JPride board members (back row, left to right) Ted Merwin , Cheryl Taragin, Adam Landy, Rachel Turniansky; (front row, left to right) Abby Woloff, Mindy Dickler, Liz Minkin Friedman and Brian Hertz. (Handout photo) … Read More
Survey: Orthodox Parents of LGBTQ Kids Want More Inclusion: Eshel
Date: February 27, 2019 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/survey-orthodox-parents-of-lgbtq-kids-want-more-inclusion/ From left: Eshel Executive Director Miryam Kabakov poses with Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Chairs of the Sixth Annual Eshel Parent Retreat Peninah Gershman and Suzi Fuld. Mindy Sager Dickler’s guiding philosophy is ahavas Yisrael, love for fellow Jews. “There’s no exceptions. We have a responsibility to love one … Read More
A Unique Place to Pray
Date: February 22, 2019 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/a-unique-place-to-pray/ One might not expect to find a Jewish prayer room in one of Baltimore’s Catholic hospitals, but thanks to the late Frank Barrash, whose wife, Etta, was treated at the hospital nearly 50 years ago, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital in Northeast Baltimore boasts the only such room in the city. … Read More
From Humble Beginnings: Eshel Retreat
Date: December 29, 2018 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/from-humble-beginnings/ When Yarden Fanta, this year’s Sue Glick Liebman Visiting Israel Scholar for The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, came to town earlier this month, she called her presentation “From Tragedy to Triumph.” And indeed, it’s an inspiring tale, as Fanta was born in a small village in Ethiopia and … Read More
Eshel Offers Support to Orthodox Parents of LGBTQ Children – Baltimore Jewish Times
Date: November 28, 2018 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/eshel-offers-support-to-orthodox-parents-of-lgbtq-children/
Moving Forward: A Request from Orthodox Parents with LGBTQ Children, 2018 by Eshel
Date: November 1, 2018 Source: Eshel URL: https://www.eshelonline.org/survey-orthodox-parents-of-lgbtq-kids-want-more-inclusion/ Open PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13dboMoz572f5pQzTbW26OQv2Tzj2q0Ur/view?usp=drivesdk Mindy Sager Dickler’s guiding philosophy is ahavas Yisrael, love for fellow Jews. “There’s no exceptions. We have a responsibility to love one another and not to judge one another. Those should be overriding principles,” said Dickler, president and co-founder of JPride Baltimore and an Orthodox mother of a gay child. … Read More
LGBTQ Advocacy Group Eshel to Host Retreat for Orthodox Parents – Baltimore Jewish Times 4/28/17
Date: April 28, 2017 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/lgbtq-advocacy-group-eshel-to-host-retreat-for-orthodox-parents/ Sometimes, parents know their child is gay even before their child does. That was not at all the experience of Mindy Sager Dickler, whose family is modern Orthodox. Her son, Elie, coming out five-and-a-half years ago took her completely by surprise. Though Dickler and the rest of the family were … Read More
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