Tag - Jewish

Ritual Reconstructed Revisited: continuity and signalling the future. Aka. “Ritual Reconstructed: The Online Hanukah Edition

We are delighted to invite you to take part in an online interdisciplinary symposium which builds and expands upon the AHRC funded project Ritual Reconstructed: challenges to disconnection, division and exclusion in the Jewish LGBTQI+ community.   For…

Ritual Reconstructed Visual Ethnography

Entertainment, Press & Media

Searle Kochberg talks about visual ethnography, his documentary film making research and his most recent project called ‘Ritual Reconstructed’. Jewish rituals for the LGBT community is the subject matter. Watch the interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_DUjMO_Q0s&feature=em-share_video_user CCI TV Research Matters…

TLV1 Man, Woman & Everything in Between: Story of a Trans Jew.

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The theme of Tel Aviv’s Pride Parade this year is transgender rights. So, what does it feel like to question your own gender identity? To find yourself in-between the masculine and the feminine? Surat-Shaan Knan shares his journey…

The Orange on the Seder Plate

Press & Media

The photo  is of  feminist and Lesbian Rabbi, Sheila Shulman, who died recently. In the 2007 photo contributed by BKY, Rabbi Sheila Shulman is conducting the Passover Seder service with an “exotic” orange clearly visible on the Seder plate. In…

For a Woman

Press & Media

You touch the tender part of me to a point where I dare not even dare – knowing as always almonds and raisins the bitter and sweet. But as yet the sky has kindly refused to fall in.…

Liberal Judaism’s new equality and diversity project website launch

Press & Media

Liberal Judaism’s new equality and diversity project Ritual Reconstructed has launched an innovative and interactive website: http://ritualreconstructed.com/ Jewish people who identify as LGBTQI, and the wider audience, are invited to sign up to get access to exclusive film and…