Queer Jewish Religiosity
in America:
Directions and Trends

Radicals Transmute Tradition: New Queer Voices at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, led by Andrew Ramer and Miryam Kabakov
Followed by a reception

Following an alternative Havdallah led by Cantor Sharon Bernstein, authors from two recently published LGBT anthologies and one novel will be reading and sharing images from their work. These books are Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in the Jewish Community, Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires, and Kabbalah of Stone, a tale of same-sex love set in Spain just before the expulsion. Following the reading there will be a festive oneg.

*For those interested, Havdalah service will be held at Sha'ar Zahav before the reading and reception

**Please note that there is no synagogue parking at Sha'ar Zahav. Parking can be found on Hoff Street garage off 16th, between Mission and Valencia.

Greetings, opening remarks (Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Stanford University)

Opening Panel
A group of specialists in the fields of religious life, American Jewish culture, the popular religiou evaluate Queer liturgical and expository texts.

• Marc Dollinger (San Francisco State University)
• Ari Kelman (UC Davis)
• Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers)
• Chava Weissler (Lehigh University)

Moderator: Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University)

Lunch break

Queer Liturgy
Discussion by authors and editors of prayer books.

• Rabbi Camille Shira Angel (Cong. Sha’ar Zahav, San Francisco)
• Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (Cong. Beit Simchat Torah)
• Gregg Drinkwater (Keshet)
• Andrew Ramer (Author)

Moderator: Max Strassfeld (Stanford University)

Coffee Break

1. "To Wear is Human, to Live Divine": Reuven Zelman, Elliot Kukla
2. "Kweer Words": Andrew Ramer
3. "Don't Touch My Text!": Miryam Kabakov
4. "Bible, Interrupted.": Amichai Lau-Lavie

*For those interested, afternoon service will be held at Stanford Hillel after the workshops

"The Bowls Project", a performance installation by the Charming Hostess, based on sex, magic and the apocalypse in Babylonian Jewish amulets.
Location: Hillel at Stanford.