Subject Index:
Diversity within the
Jewish community
Because Jews come in all colors and sexual orientations, we've sponsored a variety of educational programs exploring diversity within the Jewish community.
Internet resources on race and ethnicity
(because Jews come in all colors)
The Experience of LGBT People with Religion
A panel discussion of the challenges faced by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people within various religions. Panelists were Faisal Alam, Founder of Al-Fatiha, an International LGBT Muslim organization; Rabbi David Dunn Bauer, Jewish Community of Amherst; Kathleen Boucher, researcher on LGB Catholics; Chris McMillan, co-director of the Multicultural Resource Center at Amherst College; and Winnie Nazarko, a Buddhist teacher at the Insight Meditation Society (2/11/09)
Film: "Young, Jewish and Left"
A celebration of diversity, this documentary weaves Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, queer culture, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multi-layered tapestry of Leftist politics. Filmmaker Konnie Chameides spoke after the screening at Food For Thought Books in Amherst (4/9/08)
Performance: "It's Better in Amharic"
Black History Month celebration. A hilarious and poignant one-man play by Ethiopian-Israeli Yossi Vassa, who acts out his travels from Ethiopia to his new home in Israel, exploring what it means to be a Jew in Ethiopia and an African in Israel (2/5/08)
In Conversation with Tony Kushner
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America (a landmark play about the politics of AIDS) and the screenplay for Munich, Kushner is one of America's cultural icons, and its conscience. The 2007-2008 Rand Lecture was co-presented by the Theater Department, Stonewall Center and Office of Jewish Affairs (10/9/07)
Wrestling With Angels
A feature-length documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (10/2/07)
Monday Night in Westerbork
A performance about a cabaret troupe formed inside the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands (10/11/06)
The Klezmatics and Joshua Nelson in Concert
Freedom songs from the African American and Jewish traditions, featuring Black-Jewish gospel singer Joshua Nelson (4/20/05)
Trembling Before God
Documentary film about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews and the dilemma they face reconciling their love of Judaism with the Biblical prohibition against homosexuality (4/7/03)
Genes, 'Lost' Tribes, and Jewish Identity
Is the Lemba community of South Africa a "Lost Tribe" of Israel? Lecture by Dr. Tudor Parfitt on the results of recent genetic research (4/6/00)
Barebones Theater
Student theater troupe organized by the Office of Jewish Affairs, which performed educational skits about anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia (1996-97)
MotherSON
A one-man play exploring the hilarious and poignant relationship between a Jewish mother and her gay son (10/29/99)
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