Category: Culture/Tradition

ACJC @ Monash: Summer Lecture Series – Reading the Bible through a bent lens

ACJC @ Monash: Summer Lecture Series – Reading the Bible through a bent lens.

    • When
      Tuesday, 14 February 2012
    • Time
      19:30 until 21:30
  • Where
    H1.25 H Building, Monash University Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road
  • Description
    Professor David Shneer and Gregg Drinkwater:
    Reading the Bible Through a Bent Lens – An Evening with the Editors of Torah QueeriesJoin the co-editors of Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible for an interactive presentation inspired by this groundbreaking collection of Torah commentary from NYU Press. What does it mean to ‘queer’ the Torah? What insights might an LGBT perspective bring to the Bible? What can non-LGBT allies learn from the book’s rich perspectives on Judaism’s most sacred text?Professor David Shneer: Holds the chair of Jewish history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He researches questions of contemporary Jewish identity and his books include Queer Jews, New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust.Gregg Drinkwater: Prior to joining Keshet, Gregg was the director of Jewish Mosaic and one of the organisation’s three co-founders. He is the co-editor, with David Shneer and Rabbi Joshua Lesser, of the book Torah Queeries: Weekly commentaries on the Hebrew Bible inspired by the online Torah commentary project launched by Jewish Mosaic in 2006Admission: $10

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What are Israel’s top directors up to? Eytan Fox is probably the next prominent Israeli who will release a film. He is busy editing Yossi’s Story, a sequel to his acclaimed 2002 film Yossi & Jagger, which tells the story of two gay soldiers in the IDF. Ohad Knoller reprises his role as Yossi. He will be joined by veteran actor Lior Ashkenazi (who starred in Fox’s Walk on Water) and rising star Oz Zehavi, who is best known for his part on the TV series Asfur and appeared in the film Infiltration. Orly Silbersatz co-stars as Jagger’s mother.