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Book Event and Launch with the Jerusalem Open House
Feb 9 2010 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM	email to a friend \| bookmark

Venue:	Jerusalem Open House 2 HaSoreg St. Jerusalem, View on Mapquest
Contact Website:	N/A
Contact:	www.joh.org.il
Organization:	Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance
Cost:	10 NIS requested donation
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Join the Jerusalem Open House for an evening of Torah with Rabbi Steven Greenberg in celebration of the Israel release of Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible.

Rabbi Steven Greeberg, a contributor to Torah Queeries, will be teaching Torah and discussing the book. A question and answer session will follow.

This will be a Hebrew language event. (Questions can be addressed in Hebrew or English.) Copies of Torah Queeries will be for sale.

Torah Queeries brings together some of the world’s leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a "bent lens". It is an incredibly rich collection that unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism. All bring to the table unique methods of reading and interpreting that allow the Torah to speak to modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life. Torah Queeries (NYU Press, 2009) is a project of Jewish Mosaic, edited by Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Shneer, with a foreword by Judith Plaskow.
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Steven Greenberg is an Orthodox rabbi, ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Since 1985 he has served as a senior educator for CLAL, a think tank, leadership training institute, and resource center. Rabbi Greenberg is the author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, which won the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Award. He is currently rabbi-in-residence at Hazon, a leading Jewish environmental organization, and Keshet, a grassroots organization dedicated to LGBT inclusion in the Jewish community. Rabbi Greenberg contributed several chapters to Torah Queeries.