Tue, Jun 23
06:00PM
Tue, Jun 23
06:00PM
book celebration and talk
Changing Lives, Making History: CBST - The First Forty Years – CBST’s 40th Anniversary Book
Join us as we mark pride month by celebrating the publication of Changing Lives, Making History: CBST - The First Forty Years – CBST’s 40th Anniversary Book. This special program will host the book’s author, Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen, and the author of its preface, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, for a stimulating conversation on their longtime work at CBST. We will discuss the enduring and changing visions and missions of CBST as the first synagogue designated especially for LGBTQ Jews, the place, voice, and status of the LGBTQ Jewish community within the NYC Jewish community and the American Jewish community as a whole, the histories and intersections of Jewish and LGBTQ struggles for minority rights in NYC and in America.
“The story, or rather the stories in Changing Lives, Making History: Congregation Beit Simchat Torah illuminate 40 revolutionary and transformative years in the life of New York City. These past forty years have witnessed, among other things, the impact of AIDS, breakthroughs in reproductive technologies and the gay baby boom, the emergence of queer and trans movements, and major Supreme Court decisions in support of equal rights. Through it all, CBST has been at the epicenter.”
“The story, or rather the stories in Changing Lives, Making History: Congregation Beit Simchat Torah illuminate 40 revolutionary and transformative years in the life of New York City. These past forty years have witnessed, among other things, the impact of AIDS, breakthroughs in reproductive technologies and the gay baby boom, the emergence of queer and trans movements, and major Supreme Court decisions in support of equal rights. Through it all, CBST has been at the epicenter.”
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