Breaking the glass, making history: Same-sex couples say, I do
J. – the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California ran this article, which features both Jewish Mosaic diversity trainer, Sharon Papo, and Jewish Mosaic San Francisco Bay Area director, Karen Erlichman. Read Breaking the glass, making history: Same-sex couples say, I do for more about how same-sex marriages are politically validating, and a big deal for all, not just the LGBT community.

Karen Waxing Poetic on Same-Sex Marriage
Check out who made LiveLeak’s coverage of the celebrations in San Francisco – Rebecca Weiner, director of Children and Family Education at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, Rabbi Sydney Mintz from Congregation Emanu-El, and Jewish Mosaic’s very own Karen Erlichman, director of Jewish Mosaic’s San Francisco Bay Area office. Mazel tov to all who celebrated the simchah of marriage!

A Jewish Perspective on ENDA – By Karen Erlichman
What does Judaism teach us about discrimination in the workplace? How can we respond to the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) from a spiritual perspective? Karen Erlichman, the director of Jewish Mosaic’s San Francisco Bay Area office, offers some answers in an essay she wrote for the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and Faith Program.

To read the entire essay click here.

The Ronald P. Wilmot Scholarship Fund
The Bureau of Jewish Education is offering undergraduate and graduate scholarships to the children of gay and/or lesbian parent(s). For more information, please visit: www.bjesf.org/financial_collegestudy.htm

Nehirim West—Outside San Francisco Nehirim is proud to announce Nehirim West, our first weekend retreat in California, created in partnership with JewishMosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. The retreat will take place March 7-9, 2007, outside of San Francisco, and will be directed by Julia Watts Belser.

For more information please visit: http://www.nehirim.org/west/index.shtml

Jewish Mosaic is a co-sponsor of this event