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Rita Fischer: Raising Cash for the Cause
After her son Jay came out, Rita Fischer and her husband quickly became community activists with PFLAG.
By Lauren Tuck, www.poz.com
CBST has a new rabbi
Rabbi Rachel Weiss joins the LGBT synagogue. By Beth Greenfield newyork.timeout.com
Rabbi Kleinbaum Quoted in Jewish Week Article About New English-Language Website for Orthodox Lesbians
Rabbi Kleinbaum is quoted in this article from the Jewish Week detailing the development of the Hebrew language Bat Kol website that has served as an online home for Orthodox Lesbians since before 2005. Two women are currently working to develop an English language version of the site.
Tzedek, tzedek tirdof: Dear Google, Don't Be Evil
"If you see in a province oppression of the poor and suppression of right and justice, don't wonder at the fact; for one high official is protected by a higher one, and both of them by still higher ones." --Ecclesiastes 5:7
Film Screening: Neshoba: The Price of Freedom - August 13-19 at Cinema City
Independent film Neshoba: The Price of Freedom opens in New York on Friday, August 13th, at Cinema Village at 7:15 PM. The screening on August 13 will be followed by a Q&A session with the directors. Neshoba is Jewish lesbian filmmaker Micki Dickoff's documentary about the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and the indictment of its mastermind more than four decades later.Neshoba runs from Friday, August 13th through Thursday, August 19th. Check the Cinema Village website for ticket information and show times.http://cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/show_movie.asp?movieid=1908
Jewels of Elul
Prepare for the High Holidays with this collection of 29 stories, musings and anecdotes on "The Art of Beginning...Again."
Tzedek, tzedek tirdof: Fairness in Drug Sentencing
"Who secures justice for those who are wronged, gives food to the hungry. Adonai sets prisoners free; Adonai restores sight to the blind; Adonai makes those who are bent stand straight; Adonai loves the righteous; Adonai watches over the stranger; Adonai gives courage to the orphan." --Psalm 146:7-9
Rabbi Cohen, Rabbi Kleinbaum, and Former CRRI Intern Named in Forward's Top 50 Female Rabbis
In response to the underrepresentation of women in Newsweek's annual "50 Most Influential Rabbis" list, The Jewish Forward published its own list of 50 Influential women Rabbis. We're proud to have Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, and former Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Intern Sara Paasche-Orlow included in that list!
Tzedek, tzedek tirdof: End Gender Based Pay Discrimination
"It is the responsibility of the poet to say many times: there is no freedom without justice and this means economic justice and love justice" --Grace Paley
