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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