Sharon Steinhorn

 

Sharon Steinhorn has been involved in Jewish education and Jewish life for over 30 years. She was one of the pioneers in Jewish family education, having served as the first professional family educator at Congregation B'nai Joshua Beth Elohim in Glenview, IL and at Congregation B'nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT. She also worked in Jewish early childhood education for much of the 1970s and 1980s. Now in her "retirement", she serves as lay leader for Temple Shalom in Aberdeen, NJ and as a volunteer facilitator and board member for the New Jersey region of the Union for Reform Judaism.

Family Program: SHOVE-WHO-WHAT?

Oh! You Mean Shavuot

Shavuot: the holiday that gets left out of the Religious school curriculum because it comes “too late.” Join together for an interactive, intergenerational catch-up on the main players, the who, what, and why,... (but no shov-ing). No experience necessary, but if you have eaten blintzes before, you are ahead of the game.

Creating Welcoming Communities

LGBT Jewish Inclusion

Caryn Aviv, Gregg Drinkwater, Steve Greenberg, Amichai Lau Lavie, Sharon Steinhorn, Aaron Weininger

Have lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews "made it" in the Jewish world? Since 2006, the Conservative Movement opened two of its seminaries to gay and lesbian students, the Reform Movement ordained the first openly transgender rabbi, and Reconstructionists elected the first openly gay leader of a national rabbinic body. But too many LGBT Jews are still excluded from full integration into Jewish communal and institutional cultures. Come discuss the future of LGBT inclusion in Jewish life with one of the first openly-gay Conservative rabbinical students, the proud mother of a gay son, the first openly-gay Orthodox rabbi, the founder of Storahtelling, and the staff of Jewish Mosaic.

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