Celebrate Pride Month With Sinai
We have several upcoming programs to honor and celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community for Pride Month as well as many new additions to our book collection at the Philip N. Kranz Learning Center.
EVENTS
Shabbat Service Celebrating Pride
Friday, June 7, 6:30 pm
With members of our Sinai community.
Understanding the Rainbow: NAVON (65+) Lunch & Learn with SOJOURN
Tuesday, June 11, 12:00 pm
NAVON and SOJOURN (The Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender & Sexual Diversity) are partnering to host a special lunch & learn. We'll explore the changing landscape of identity, the language and terminology of gender and sexual diversity and how to be an ally through a Jewish lens. Lunch will be provided. Free to attend but please register. RSVP Here
Film Screening of Mama Bears in Partnership with Holy Innocents Episcopal Church
Tuesday, June 25, 6:30 pm
Join us for a screening of the documentary Mama Bears. Follow the stories of moms of LGBTQIA+ kids who overcome their conservative backgrounds and communities to become fierce advocates for their children. The evening will be hosted by Bunzl Family Cantorial Chair Beth Schafer and Rev. Stewart Lucas of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church who will share some of their stories about being gay clergy. We will also hear from the filmmaker Daresha Kyi about her experience making the film. Light dinner will be served. RSVP Here
BOOKS
Check out the new books in our library including biographies, non-fiction and fiction that paint many pictures of Jewish/gay life.
Barney Frank by Stuart Weisberg
Becoming Eve by Abby Stein
The Humbling by Philip Roth
In This Day and Age by Isaac Namdar
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Tiimes of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kickass by Julie Tarney
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, eds.
The Soul of a Stranger by Joy Ladin
Trans Talmud by Max K. Strassfeld
