[Jewish] Trembling Before God: the lives of Orthodox and Hassidic Gay & Lesbian Jews at Hampshire this Thursday night!

[Steven Nathan]

*Trembling Before God: the lives of Orthodox and Hassidic Gay & Lesbian 
Jews*

Trembling Before G-d shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and 
religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories 
of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a 
group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to reconcile their 
passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical 
prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. In the film we meet a range of 
complex individuals: the world's first openly gay Orthodox rabbi; 
closeted, married Hasidic gays and lesbians; Orthodox lesbian 
high-school sweethearts; and individuals abandoned by religious 
families. Trembling is more than a film; it's become a movement.
Followed by Film Talk! w/ Gabriel Blau, founder of The God & Sexuality 
Conference and author of /Two Truths: Living as a Religious Gay Jew/.

*This event is on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009.
It is held at : Franklin Patterson - West Lecture Hall
This event starts at 7:00pm.
This is part of the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival.  Admission is 
free for all 5 college students. Regular admission is $8.00.  Seniors 
and other students are $6.00.*
 
This event is organized by : Hampshire College Jewish Student Union, 
Alize (Queer Jewish Student Group), Spiritual Life Office, Jewish 
Studies Program, and Queer Student Services Office

For more information visit http://pvjff.org/html/schedule.html#a2 or 
E-mail snathan at hampshire.edu <mailto:snathan at hampshire.edu>
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attached: flier for Trembling Before God


 


Steven P. Nathan

Campus Rabbi

Interim LGBTQ Advisor

Hampshire College 
                                                           

Office of Spiritual Life -- Box SA

Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: (413) 559-5282

Fax: (413) 559-5663

snathan at hampshire.edu <mailto:snathan at hampshire.edu>


 

/"The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the 
more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the prophets 
sought to convey: that morally speaking there is no limit to the concern 
one must feel for the suffering of human beings. It also became clear to 
me that in regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society, 
some are guilty, all are responsible."/

/-Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel/


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