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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:00:41
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From: Larry Goldbaum <goldbaum@admin.umass.edu><br>
Subject: "Trembling Before G-d" on April 7<br>
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The Office of Jewish Affairs and the Stonewall Center present<br><br>
"TREMBLING BEFORE G-D"<br><br>
Monday, April 7, 2003 at 7:00 pm<br>
Hasbrouck Auditorium<br>
UMass<br><br>
Free Admission <br><br>
Trembling Before G-d is an unprecedented feature documentary that
shatters assumptions<br>
about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around
intimately-told<br>
personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the
film portrays a<br>
group of people who face a profound dilemma-how to reconcile their
passionate love of<br>
Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid
homosexuality.<br><br>
As the film unfolds, we meet a range of complex individuals-some hidden,
some out-from the<br>
world's first openly gay Orthodox rabbi to closeted, married Hasidic gays
and lesbians to<br>
those abandoned by religious families to Orthodox lesbian high-school
sweethearts. <br>
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Discussion with Rabbi Julie Greenberg following the film<br><br>
Rabbi Greenberg serves congregation Leyv Ha-Ir-Heart of the City in
Philadelphia. She has<br>
a private counseling practice called Counseling with Soul and is the
mother of five<br>
children. In 1980 she founded a summer camp for the children of gay and
lesbian families,<br>
Mountain Meadow Country Experience. Greenberg is a Reconstructionist
Rabbi with strong<br>
ties to Jewish Renewal work. <br><br>
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For more information contact The Stonewall Center at 545-4824<br><br>
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Larry Goldbaum, Director<br>
Office of Jewish Affairs<br>
University of
Massachusetts (413)
545-9642<br>
210 Middlesex
House
goldbaum@admin.umass.edu<br>
Amherst, MA
01003
<a href="http://www.umass.edu/jewish" eudora="autourl">www.umass.edu/jewish</a><br>
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