Wresting Identities: Jewish and LGBTQ+ feat. Rabbi Steve Greenberg

Note: Please RSVP here by November 4 at midnight. UMBC Hillel will help coordinate carpools and ubers for students—if you are attending, please also email Lisa Huberman at lhuberm1@umbc.edu (they cannot see who has registered)

Hopkins Hillel, in partnership with Eshel & Baltimore-area Jewish communities and organizations (UMBC Hillel Included), is excited to welcome Rabbi Steven Greenberg for an evening exploring Jewish text, tradition, identity, and belonging.

Event Details

• Date: Sunday, November 8

• Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m.

• Location: Hopkins Hillel, third floor

• Address: 3109 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

• Food: A light dinner will be provided.

• Registration deadline: November 4 at midnight

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is a pioneering Orthodox & Gay Rabbi is widely known as the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi. He is an Orthodox-ordained educator, writer, and speaker; a founder of Eshel, an organization supporting LGBTQ+ Orthodox Jews; and the author of the award-winning Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition. He also appeared in the documentary Trembling Before G-d and has facilitated hundreds of post-screening conversations around the world. 

His teaching has been meaningful to LGBTQ+ Jews and their loved ones across Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and other Jewish backgrounds. His work creates space for thoughtful engagement with the questions LGBTQ+ people may bring to Jewish communal and spiritual/religious life.

For more information about R. Greenberg please visit https://www.eshelonline.org/rabbi-steven-greenberg/