In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week.
Written to engage readers, draw them in, and, at times, provoke them, Torah.
Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a vision of community transformation, all done through biblical interpretation.
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.
This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism.
With Commentaries on the fifty-four Weekly Torah portions and six major Jewish holidays, the concise yet substantive writings collected here open up stimulating new insights and highlight previously neglected perspectives.
Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries brings together some of the world\'s leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a bent lens.
These Weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries.
A modernized, queer reading of the Torah In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week.
A labor of intellectual rigor, social justice, and personal passions, Torah Queeries is an exciting and important contribution to the project of democratizing Jewish communities, and an essential guide to understanding the intersection of queerness and Jewishness.
Written to engage readers, draw them in, and at times provoke them, Torah Queeries charts a future of inclusion and social justice deeply rooted in the Jewish textual tradition.
Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a vision of community transformation, all done through biblical interpretation.
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.
This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism.
Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries brings together some of the world\'s leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a bent lens.
In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week
