Greetings!
Since our successful 2013 World Conference in Canada, the World Congress of GLBT Jews has embarked on the endeavor of redeveloping its website. We want to enhance our goal of establishing connections and growing LGBT Jewish communities around the world.
We are looking for website developers to help us! To be part of the team, we are looking for people with a borderless vision, who understand the importance of our mission of supporting, inspiring, and strengthening local groups to achieve equality and security for LGBT Jews worldwide.
If you have expertise or some experience in website development, graphic design and electronic social networking, contact us and we will get in touch with you! We are looking for a diverse, global team. Please send me an e-mail to coordinator@glbtjews.org
Gideon Vaisman
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AUSTRALIA - Victoria's first Jewish gay commitment ceremony; synagogue prepares to host first gay and lesbian festival celebration
When Ilana Gelbart said "yes" to Krissy Adrian's elaborate proposal, the issue wasn't coming out of the closet, it was conversion.
"It was more difficult for me because Krissy had to get converted; when we got together she wasn't Jewish," Ms Gelbart said.
On August 18, the Elsternwick couple became the first gay couple in Victoria to have a Jewish commitment ceremony.
And now their progressive synagogue, Temple Beth Israel in St Kilda, is hosting the first-ever celebration of the Midsumma Gay and Lesbian Festival in a synagogue, on January 31, in partnership with Keshet, the national GLBTI Jewish advocacy group.
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USA - Keshet - LGBTQ and ally teen shabbaton
April 4-6, 2014
Celebrate being yourself!
Join KESHET for a weekend of fun, community, and learning for and by Jewish LGBTQ and ally teens! Meet new friends, learn about LGBTQ organizing and identities, and celebrate a lakeside Shabbat with a warm, vibrant community of LGBTQ and ally teens and adults.
Location: Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT.
Organized travel will be available from the New York City and Boston metro areas.
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USA - Chicago - Congregation Or Chadash receives inaugural JUF Breakthrough Fund grant
Congregation Or Chadash's Hidur Keshet program is a recipient of the first round of Breakthrough Fund mini-grants from the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Hidur Keshet will create a space for LGBTQ Jewish individuals to connect with the extended Jewish community through program content that links gay history, gender identity, and Judaism.
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ENGLAND - London - BKY Shabbat study sessions
All sessions take place in the Library at the Unitarian Hall, Notting Hill Gate.
Saturday February 15, 2014 11.00am - 2.30pm: John Heyderman
Saturday March 29, 2014 11.00am - 2.30pm: Rabbi Judith Rosen-Berry
Saturday April 26, 2014 11.00am - 2.30pm: Bol Marjoram
A shared kiddush and lunch takes place at 1.00pm
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CANADA - LGBT Trip to Israel
Create memories to last a lifetime on a 12-day trip to Israel, customized for members and friends of the LGBT community. The itinerary will be packed with activities, including visits to Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Masada, Safed, gay community centres, and of course, partying it up in Tel Aviv for Gay Pride!
Departure from Toronto is June 5, 2014
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ISRAEL - Israel's gay holocaust memorial debuts in Tel Aviv
Israel unveiled Friday a memorial in Tel Aviv to remember the gay and lesbian victims of Nazi persecution, in a ceremony attended by Germany's ambassador.
Members of Tel Aviv's gay community turned out to see the stone monument, modelled on the pink triangle Nazis made homosexuals wear in concentration camps during World War II, which features inscriptions in German, Hebrew and English.
"In addition to the extermination of Europe's Jews, the Nazis committed many atrocities, in an attempt to destroy anyone who was considered different," Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai said at the unveiling. "This monument reminds us all how important it is for us to respect every human being," he said.
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As a member of the World Congress of GLBT Jews, you become part of a worldwide organization.
You will be able to:
. participate in regional and international conferences.
. have your calendar of events available to a worldwide GLBT Jewish community. Member's Calendar
. be part of an international tzedaka fund to help developing GLBT Jewish organizations in Latin America and elsewhere. Go to TZEDAKA To join personally or as a Member Organization go to JOIN! |
The WCGLBTJ is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews: Keshet Ga'avah
P.O. Box 23379
Washington, DC 20026-3379 USA |
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