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SUMMARY:Dinner & Discuss – Pride and Identity
DESCRIPTION:Dinner & Discuss (D&D) is a new Friday night Shabbat experience that brings people together around food\, conversation\, and learning. Designed to be welcoming and discussion-focused\, the evening begins with a community potluck\, continues with a facilitated discussion featuring guest rabbinical student\, Simcha Howard\, with R’ Ariel\, and concludes with a quick ma’ariv/ evening service. \nAs part of Flavors of Friday Night\, this program fosters multiple entry points while deepening engagement and connection for all. \n  \nRSVP for Dinner & Discuss \n  \nJune 22 – Dinner and Discuss: Pride and Identity\nPride celebrates the liberation of the LGBTQA community to live openly and proudly. Commemorating the Stonewall Riots and subsequent decades of advocacy for the rights and dignity of LGBTQA people\, please join us for a discussion exploring identity\, belonging\, and pride through personal stories. \n6:00 pm – Potluck Dinner (community-building and hospitality) start with a few short Shabbat songs as we get settled\n6:20 pm – Discussion Begins (moderated conversation with speakers while people continue eating)\n7:15 pm – Shabbat Service (short Shabbat maariv that is in person only\, no zoom\, about 15 minutes to allow mourners to say kaddish) \n  \n\nRabbinical Student\, Simcha Howard \nSimcha’s Biography: \nSimcha Howard (they/them) is a second-year rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and a Los Angeles native with a love for Ancient Near Eastern history\, L.A. history\, creative writing\, Shabbat liturgy\, and connecting to God through communal song. \nSimcha graduated from New York University in 2021\, where they were active in healthcare advocacy and disability rights work and served as Vice Chair of Student Government\, representing over 61\,000 students. After college\, they worked at Netflix before feeling called to the rabbinate and a life of service through teaching\, chaplaincy\, Jewish education\, and congregational work. \nSimcha currently teaches both children and adults in Los Angeles\, including courses in Torah and Biblical Hebrew\, and is especially passionate about making Jewish learning spiritually alive\, intellectually curious\, deeply accessible\, and inclusive for learners of all ages. \nThey also have two rescue chihuahuas\, Marty and Tina\, and would always love to see pictures of your dogs. \n 
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/dinner-discuss-pride-and-identity/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Synagogue\, 188 North Prospect Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Kabbalat Shabbat,Pride Month,Worship Services
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SUMMARY:Pride Shabbat
DESCRIPTION:Rabbinical Student\, Simcha Howard \nPlease join us for Shabbat services\, including a special dvar Torah in honor of Pride by guest rabbinical student\, Simcha Howard.  \nSimcha Howard (they/them) is a second-year rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and a Los Angeles native with a love for Ancient Near Eastern history\, L.A. history\, creative writing\, Shabbat liturgy\, and connecting to God through communal song. \nSimcha graduated from New York University in 2021\, where they were active in healthcare advocacy and disability rights work and served as Vice Chair of Student Government\, representing over 61\,000 students. After college\, they worked at Netflix before feeling called to the rabbinate and a life of service through teaching\, chaplaincy\, Jewish education\, and congregational work. \nSimcha currently teaches both children and adults in Los Angeles\, including courses in Torah and Biblical Hebrew\, and is especially passionate about making Jewish learning spiritually alive\, intellectually curious\, deeply accessible\, and inclusive for learners of all ages. \nThey also have two rescue chihuahuas\, Marty and Tina\, and would always love to see pictures of your dogs.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/shabbatprideservc/
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SUMMARY:LGBTQA Get-Together
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Pride\, R’ Ariel and Jason are opening their home to come together to share food\, board games\, some song\, and be in community. All are welcome\, but a special invitation is extended to those who identity within the LGBTQA community\, as well as their families\, loved ones\, and guests! \nPlease register in advance. Rabbi Ariel will send out an email ahead with their address.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/lgbtqa-get-together/
LOCATION:Burlington\, Vermont
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Pride Month
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SUMMARY:Fifth Annual Pride Seder 2026
DESCRIPTION:Our fifth annual Pride Seder is a ritual that chronicles the liberation of LGBTQA people\, much like the Passover Seder\, which retells the story of the liberation of the Jewish people. \nRegister Here \nJoin a diverse gathering of Vermont LGBTQA Jews\, Jew-adjacent folks and allies to celebrate our coming out of bondage with songs\, prayers\, and an unusual and poignant seder plate. People of all ages are welcome. \nEvent History: The first Pride Seder took place in 1995\, using a Haggadah written by Ray Schnitzler and Susie Kisber\, of the Berkeley Queer Minyan. Copies of the Haggadah travelled to B’nai Jeshurun in New York\, Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco and many other communities around the world. View our 2024 Pride Haggadah here. \n  \n\n2026 partners: \n \n\nPast years’ photos: \n \n 
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/fifth-annual-pride-seder-2026/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Social Hall\, 188 N. Prospect St\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Pride Month
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SUMMARY:In the Torah: Imagining Queerness and the Ancient Israelite Body
DESCRIPTION:Rabbinical Student\, Simcha Howard \nPlease join us for a thought-provoking class by our visiting Rabbinical Student\, Simcha Howard! \nIn-person with Zoom option for those that can not attend. \nThe Torah is assumed by many to be exclusionary of variant-sexed bodies\, and modern critique often interprets Biblical categorization of non-normative bodies in an inherently negative way. However\, if we strip away modern assumptions regarding gender and sexuality\, might we encounter new and liberatory revelations of queerness in the text of the Torah? \nThe Torah also establishes strict regulations governing the human body\, in order to ensure the survival of an Ancient Canaanite society that was organized around reproduction\, lineage\, ritual purity\, inheritance\, and covenantal continuity. Yet\, many Biblical verses that serve these purposes are used to support queerphobic beliefs\, even while the Torah does not espouse them itself. \nIn this one-hour class\, we will set aside our restrictive\, modern assumptions about the Torah\, gender\, and sex\, to reveal new frameworks of queerness in our tradition that might surprise and delight. We will also explore the socio-political realities of an ancient world where the body functioned as a “legal instrument”\, and we will ask: \n\nHow can we “trans” Torah study?\nWhat can we pull from the depths of our tradition\, in order to live fully as queer Jews?\nWhy was the Torah bent on regulating the body in the context of the ancient Near East?
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/in-the-torah-imagining-queerness-and-the-ancient-israelite-body/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Samuelson Saiger Sanctuary\, 188 North Prospect Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pride Month
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