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...
What is the place of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews in history? Over the past two years, Noam Sienna has worked to uncover documents that until now have been scattered across the globe, and largely unrecognized. Pulling together these varied sources, written in over fifteen languages — which include poetry, literature, law, midrash,...
Stay for a dessert reception and presentation by author, Noam Sienna, who will discuss his new book, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969. Noam will teach the Shabbat Morning Class on 11/23 at 8:45am and deliver that morning’s sermon.
"Like a house concert, but for LGBTQ Jewish history." Come to La Querencia for a potluck and learning with Jewish Queer scholar Noam Sienna (author of A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969. Potluck: 6:30 pm Learning: 7:15 pm Q: Do I need to be Jewish and/or...
