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Gregg Drinkwater

 

Gregg Drinkwater is the executive director of Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, an organization dedicated to helping Jewish institutions become more welcoming of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews and their families. He is the co-editor, with Dr. David Shneer and Rabbi Joshua Lesser, of the book "Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible" (NYU Press, forthcoming).

Gender Trouble

Thinking Beyond Binaries

Was the first human a male? A female? Neither? Both? Were Abraham and Sarah challenged by more than just infertility? Together, we’ll explore the complexity of gender in the Book of Genesis and discuss the implications of looking at the Torah from a “queer” perspective. Can we use our sacred texts to expand our understanding of sexual and gender diversity? Come study with the co-editor of the forthcoming book “Torah Queeries” (NYU Press), inspired by the Web project: www.jewishmosaic.org/torah.

Tell Me Text

– Learning with Outstanding Thinkers

Aryeh Ben David, Gregg Drinkwater, Debra Rappaport

Text & Thought

Some of the world’s leading Jewish minds choose the text that is most meaningful to them, one that touches the soul, a piece they return to regularly, something fundamental to their Jewish identity. In 20 minutes they teach and explain their choice. Will it be Torah, Midrash, or Gemara? A painting, a poem, a song lyric? Or something unexpected?

"Yucky" Texts

How We Deal With the Hard Stuff in the Jewish and Muslim Traditions

Muhammad Al-Hussaini, Gregg Drinkwater, Robin Hanssen

Jewish Education, Text & Thought

Many educators and lay people alike find many parts of the Bible and other classical Jewish texts challenging, if not downright disturbing. How do we deal with these texts in our classrooms and our daily lives? Do we re-interpret them, skip over them, or get angry at them? This roundtable will suggest some ways of dealing with what we are calling "yucky texts," not because they are inherently yucky, but because they are the texts that cause us trouble and discomfort.

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