Engage in a fun Havruta-style text study, a traditional rabbinic approach to learning, with primary sources including selected queer Jewish texts from the first century up to 1969. Everyone is welcome; no previous knowledge or experience necessary. This event is part of Pluralism and Religious Diversity Week 2019
The LGBTQIA+ community has a limited historical record which makes it difficult for younger members, particularly queers of color and transgender people, to find history and form connections with our ancestors. Join panelists Andrea Jenkins, Zaylore Stout, and Noam Sienna as they reflect on how they were able to establish these connections and discuss the...
CBST is so excited to celebrate the NYC launch of Noam Sienna's groundbreaking new collection A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969. Join us at 6:30 PM on Thursday, May 23 for a short program of readings and Q&A with the author, in conversation with Rabbi Yael Rapport, followed by...
On the eve of Stonewall's 50th anniversary, this session takes up the teaching that "we were all at Sinai" to explore stories from the Jewish past that can inspire queer Jewish life today. Come discover centuries of hidden history, from a gay brawl in a medieval synagogue to a gender-bending Jewish stowaway in colonial Canada,...
Join me for a weekend of learning at Congregation Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh! Saturday, July 6 12:45 p.m., Helfant Chapel – Noam will lead a havruta style study session to explore how genders outside of the static male/female binary have been categorized, understood, and experienced, by Jews around the world from antiquity to the 20th...
What is the place of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews in history? Noam Sienna has uncovered documents that until now have been scattered across the globe, and largely unrecognized. Pulling together these varied sources, written in over 15 languages—which include literature, law, midrash, and memoir—Sienna has created the first anthology of queer Jewish...
Join us on August 8 (7:30-9:30 pm) in Manhattan for an exclusive talk by Noam Sienna on his groundbreaking, new book “A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts”. Spanning nearly two millennia, this anthology collects for the first time over a hundred sources on the intersection of Jewish and queer identities. We will...
Noam Sienna is a Jewish educator, artist, and doctoral candidate in Jewish History and Museum Studies at the University of Minnesota. His academic work has focused on the history and culture of Jewish communities in the Islamic world, from the Middle Ages to the present. A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from...
The Toronto debut of Noam Sienna's unprecedented collection of sources from Jewish LGBTQ history. Featuring poetry, literature, law, midrash, and memoir, this is an unprecedented examination of the histories of gender and sexuality over two millennia of Jewish life around the world. Come discover centuries of hidden history, from a gay brawl in a medieval...
