Gay Passover

This is a haggadah, but an unconventional one. Many in the LGBTQ community come from humble roots; We move from suburban, conservative areas to big cities. We come to terms with our identities as being different from the families that raised us. This story is not unlike the journey Moses took. "Gay Passover" reimagines the Exodus story in this way, but as a comedy that features Neil Patrick Harris as Moses, Cher as God, Oprah as the Angel of Death. It's supposed to be lighthearted and make you laugh. The book began as a dinner party in my San Francisco home and in 2019 became a very successful Kickstarter. Now you can own it, too.The story begins in a suburban Middle American town, where residents living there are plagued with totally basic hair-dos, and they live in ugly homes. Soon the gays arrive, fixing up the neighborhoods and throwing fabulous wedding parties. The town mayor begins to worry the entire town will turn gay, and orders families to kill their gay babies. One mother couldn't bear to do it, though, and so one child would be spared and eventually become Neil Patrick Harris, the adoptive son of conservative senators.Some favorite moments: - Let's just say "The Burning Bush" is a lesbian bar in Kansas.- The 10 plagues for suburban straight people include skinny jeans and glitter bombs.- If Cher could turn back time, you bet she would have declared herself god of the gays, like she does in this story.This book has been beautifully illustrated by Max Charnley. In addition to the story itself, some other sections include: - A "gayder" plate with symbols reflective of the LGBTQ community and our shared experiences.- Songs and games like "Let My Gays Go" and "One Twink, One Twink" a variation on Chad Gadya- "The four gays" a variation on "The four children"- Seven recipes to throw a highly successful "Gay Passover" party

A powerful--and empowering--gathering of women's voices transmitting Judaism's Passover legacy to the next generation. The Women's Passover Companion offers an in-depth examination of women's relationships to Passover as well as the roots and meanings of women's seders. This groundbreaking collection captures the voices of Jewish women--rabbis, scholars, activists, political leaders and artists--who engage in a provocative conversation about the themes of the Exodus and exile, oppression and liberation, history and memory, as they relate to contemporary women's lives. Whether seeking new insights into the text and traditions of Passover or learning about women's seders for the first time, both women and men will find this collection an inspiring introduction to the Passover season and an eye-opening exploration of questions central to Jewish women, to Passover and to Judaism itself.

This three-volume set is a rich resource for readers in any discipline interested in understanding the global, regional, and domestic experiences of LGB people. This interdisciplinary set makes a vital contribution to understanding how LGB rights are progressing—and in some cases, regressing—around the globe. The three volumes look at the lived experiences of LGB people from varied perspectives and provide comprehensive coverage on a wide variety of topics ranging from LGB youth and LGB aging to the approaches to LGB people of different religions, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Chapters focus on topics including the ongoing criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct and how international human rights law can be used to improve the lives of LGB people. Particular attention is paid to the rights of bisexuals, a group often ignored in works focusing on sexual orientation. Volume 1 focuses on history, politics, and culture relating to LGB people; Volume 2 focuses on the laws—domestic and international—governing LGB people; and Volume 3 provides snapshots of the current state of LGB experience in countries worldwide, presented by geographical region: Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region.

The twenty six members of the Queer Imaging & Riting Kollective for elders (Quirk-e) chronicle their journey from no rights to civil rights in this, their sixth anthology. For further information or to order more copies visit us at www.quirk-e.com Every brave voice deserves a hearing. If you have ever felt you have been targeted as 'the other, ' ever felt abandoned, mocked for being different, here are individual voices that may connect with you. -Wayson Choy, author of The Jade Peony

Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding. It probes how and why the Exodus has continued to be vital to Jews throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience. As an interdisciplinary work, it incorporates contributions from a range of Jewish Studies scholars in order to explore the Exodus from a variety of vantage points. It addresses such topics as: the Jewish reception of the biblical text of Exodus; the progressive unfolding of the Exodus in the Jewish interpretive tradition; the religious expression of the Exodus as ritual in Judaism; and the Exodus as an ongoing lens of self-understanding for both the State of Israel and contemporary Judaism. The essays are guided by a common goal: to render comprehensible how the re-envisioning of Exodus throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience has enabled it to function for thousands of years as the central motif for the Jewish people.

Britney Spears loathes meatloaf and “all lumpy stuff.” Arturo Toscanini hated fish. Ayn Rand despised salads. Alexander Theroux’s Einstein’s Beets is a study of the world of food and food aversions. The novelist and poet probes the secret and mysterious attitudes of hundreds of people―mostly famous and well-known―toward eating and dining out, hilariously recounting tales of confrontation and scandalous alienation: it contains gossip, confession, embarrassment, and perceptive observations.

This empowering resource for the spiritual revival of our times enables us to find deeper meaning in one of Judaism?s most beloved traditions, the Passover Seder. This Haggadah commentary adds layer upon layer of new insight to the age-old celebration of the journey from slavery to freedom?and makes its power accessible to all.It features traditional Hebrew text with a new translation designed to let people know exactly what the Haggadah says. Introductory essays help the reader understand the historical roots of the ancient holiday, the development of the Haggadah and how to make sense out of texts and customs that evolved over more than a thousand years.Framed with beautifully designed Talmud-style pages, My People?s Passover Haggadah features commentaries by scholars from all denominations of Judaism. Readers are treated to insights by experts in such fields as the Haggadah?s history; its biblical roots; its confrontation with modernity; and its relationship to rabbinic midrash and Jewish law, feminism, Chasidism, theology and kabbalah. No other volume provides the English language reader with such wide-ranging understanding of the Haggadah, the key to having the most meaningful Seder ever.

Evangelist Appelman has gleaned these gems during his many years of studying and proclaiming the Word of God. While a seminary student he “learned to record every professorial utterance and every suggestion that came to him from books.” At the request of many preachers and lay workers, these sermon outlines and helps have been gathered in a book, and Dr. Appelman expresses in his Preface the hope that this volume “will prove extremely helpful in Bible study, in memorizing, in Sunday school teaching, in preparing religious address”. Pastors, lay preachers, evangelists, Bible teachers, students – here is a book which will delight you.