Join Jewish Mosaic’s co-founders, David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, along with executive director Gregg Drinkwater this Memorial Day Weekend (May 23-26) for the first annual Limmud Colorado, a celebration of Jewish learning and culture that will take place at the scenic Keystone Resort in the Rocky Mountains just outside Denver.
Registration for the weekend includes three nights of lodging in the beautiful Keystone Lodge, all meals (kosher), and a bounty of exciting programming with sessions devoted to art, worship, culture, study, film, the outdoors, music, dance, humor, texts, history, networking, and more.
Aviv, Shneer and Drinkwater will all be presenting sessions, along with dozens of others including Rabbi Steve Greenberg (out gay Orthodox rabbi), Amichai Lau-Lavie (fabulous gay performer, writer and scholar), Reb Zalman, Eve Ilsen, Reb Mimi Feigelson, Y-Love, Aaron Freeman, Rabbi Andrew Hahn and dozens of others. With at least six noted gay and lesbian community activists and scholars as presenters, this promises to be one of the most queer-friendly Limmud experiences yet! For more info and to register, go to: http://www.limmudcolorado.org
Nehirim is a national LGBTQ Jewish spiritual initiative based in New York. Nehirim’s signature initiative is a series of annual retreat for LGBTQ Jews, partners and allies. This year’s 5th annual east coast retreat will take place May 30 – June 1 at the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center in Connecticut. Each retreat offers dynamic workshops, invaluable discussion groups, great friends, and awesome food! This year’s retreat also offers full scholarships to students. For more info and to register, go to: http://www.nehirim.org/retreat2008.shtml
Hillel’s LGBTQ trip will explore Israel in an open and accepting atmosphere. We’ll see the major sites of Israel and amazing places you didn’t even know existed and explore the LGBT community in Israel. You’ll meet your Israeli peers and get to know the real Israel – hiking Masada, exploring the tunnels under the Western Wall, drumming with the Bedouin in their desert tents, and dancing in an Israeli nightclub will show you an Israel not seen on the nightly news.
http://www.hillel.org/israel/travel/bri_hillel/trip_options/default
Pride in Israel is a 10 day trip for people in their 20s and 30s who want to experience Israel from an LGBT perspective: Experiencing gay nightlife in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; meeting with gay IDF soldiers; visiting the Jerusalem Open House; talking with experts in LGBT law at the Knesset and engaging with LGBT activists and leaders throughout the country. Initially planned as two separate trips (one in June and another in August), the program has been consolidated and moved to September 8-17. Moving the trip out of the summer peak travel season has also allowed JYImpact to reduce the price to $1,199 – a major bargain.
For more information go to www.yjimpact.org
Contact: pride@yjimpact.org or 212.303.7462