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November 2, 2015

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Keshet: Hineini: 10 Years of Coming Out in Jewish Spaces

Originally published on Keshet’s blog on MyJewishLearning.com.

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A dozen or so years ago, I was working as an educator at a large Conservative synagogue in the suburbs of Boston. Gay marriage was on the verge of legalization – and therefore on the front page of the newspaper every day.

The Conservative movement had not yet revised its decades-old opinions of sexuality, which could be summed up as, “We don’t hate you, but we’re going to leave it up to individual synagogues as to whether we treat you like members or allow you to do anything.” And despite being one of two openly gay educators at this synagogue, I found myself inching back into the closet at work due to an environment that made it clear that while it might be okay to be gay on my own time, no one wanted to hear about it on the clock.  Continue reading →

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August 12, 2005

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The Jewish Advocate: Jewish arts thrive at summer camps

Originally published in The Jewish Advocate.

NORTHWOOD, N.H. – Nearly 150 campers from seven area camps gathered at Camp Yavneh last week for the annual Jewish Arts Festival. The event, which rotates among participating camps each year, brought together performers from Yavneh, JCC Camp Kingswood in Bridgton, Maine, Camp Young Judaea in Amherst, N.H., Camp Tevya in Brook-line, N.H., Camp Pembroke in Pembroke, Mass., Camp Tel Noar in Hampstead, N.H., and Camp Ramah in Palmer, Mass.

The festival was founded in 1980, the brainchild of George Marcus, then the executive director of the Cohen Camps, and Charles Rotman and Paul Abrahamson of Camp Young Judaea. “We were talking in the off-season about how to motivate the Jewish part of our program,” remembered Marcus, “and this is what we came up with.”  Continue reading →

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July 22, 2005

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The Jewish Advocate: Boston College to launch Jewish studies program

Originally published in The Jewish Advocate.

CHESTNUT HILL – In an unusual move for a Catholic university, Boston College is unveiling a Jewish studies program this fall.

Initially, students will be able to minor in Jewish studies by taking six courses in that curriculum during their time at B.C. What makes the Jewish studies minor unique is that classes will be offered from nine different departments, including English, fine arts, history, music, philosophy, romance languages, Slavic and eastern languages, sociology and theology.

“We were struck by the large number of Jewish faculty on the campus and the significant number of courses that had a fairly hefty Jewish content in them already,” said program co-director Dwayne E. Carpenter. “What we wanted to do is to organize these disparate courses into a cohesive program that would enable students to better take advantage of B.C.’s rich curricular offerings.”  Continue reading →

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July 15, 2005

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The Jewish Advocate: Profs gather for program about teaching on Israel

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WALTHAM — More than 20 professors from universities around the world recently gathered at Brandeis University to complete a two-week intensive study of Zionism and Israel, followed by a weeklong seminar in Israel.

Now in its second year, the Summer Institute for Israel Studies is intended to assist professors in the design of new courses for their curricula on Israel.

The institute was established by Brandeis in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee’s Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations to increase the quality and scope of Israel studies courses being offered on the campuses of universities throughout North America.  Continue reading →