Join us as Noam Sienna reads selected stories from his groundbreaking collection of queer Jewish texts. There will be a Q-and-A after the reading, followed by a book signing. Spanning two millennia, five continents, and containing translations from fifteen languages, "A Rainbow Thread" is a new, definitive anthology for queer Jewish history. Through an unprecedented...

Noam Sienna (A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Sources from the First Century to 1969) and Austen Hartke (Transforming: The Bible and Lives of Transgendered Christians) will engage in a conversation regarding queer and trans interpretations of sacred texts, facilitated by United student Max Brumberg-Kraus. The evening will conclude with attendees working through...

Join the Asbell Center for their annual Pincus Lecture with Noam Sienna, author of A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969. His book spans almost two millennia and contains translations from more than a dozen languages and collects more than a hundred sources on the intersection of Jewish and...

Guest speaker Noam Sienna, Jewish educator, artist and doctoral candidate in Jewish History and Museum Studies at the University of Minnesota. This session uses havruta-style study, a traditional Jewish mode of learning, to explore a tradition of homoerotic Jewish poetry stretching from the Middle Ages until the present. Using poems written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic,...

Join Congregation T'chiyah for a nourishing Shabbat service with a brunch and learning opportunity with visiting scholar Noam Sienna.