Dinner and discussion about what makes Israeli religious LGBT activism unique, and what lessons (and mistakes) can be learned for other communities pushing for social change within their respective religious and political establishments.
Lester Bronstein has served as rabbi of Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in White Plains, New York since 1989. He has served in leadership roles with the Westchester Board of Rabbis, the White Plains Religious Leaders Association, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, the UJA-Federation of New York, the JFNA Rabbinic Cabinet, the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education,...
Rabbi Jill Jacobs (she/her) is the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, an organization that trains and mobilizes more than 2,300 rabbis and cantors and their communities to bring a moral voice to protecting and advancing human rights in North America, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of...
Claire Davidson Bruder is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She has been a Youth Advisor and Shabbat Model Educator at B’nai Jeshurun (New York.) She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University with a B.A. in Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies. She was the Strategic Communications and Development Associate at APN...
Savannah Lipner is a first-year rabbinical student at JTS who is currently serving as an Organizing and Leadership Development Intern at Dayenu and rabbinic intern at Hillel at Binghamton University.