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...

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.