Posted 4 months ago
JFCS' Family Life Education and J-Pride programs will host a three-session educational series in December By Leah Persky, PhD & CFLE, Manager of Family Life Education, and Isaac Ezra Jennings, J-Pride Coordinator Many parents and families want to support their children, relatives[...]Posted 10 months ago
All are welcome! • Wednesday, June 1 – J-Pride Coffee Social at Common Roots Café (2558 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis) from 6-8 p.m. • Saturday, June 4 – Shabbat Service and D’v[...]Posted 1 year ago
J-Pride’s mission is to engage Minnesota-based LGBTQ+ Jews and their allies to come together for social events, community gatherings, celebrations, and educational opportunities. New J-Pride Program Coordinator Isaac Ezra Jennings recently spoke about what his goals are for the program. Why [...]Posted 2 years ago
"In February and March 2021, overlapping the one-year anniversary of Minnesota’s first Stay-at-Home order, J-Pride participants submitted the following gorgeous, thoughtful, and resonant works, drawing on the themes of Passover – liberation, oppression, becoming, death, land – as well as thei[...]Posted 2 years ago
By Miriam Graham • J-Pride Coordinator Here we sit at the precipice of a new year. Its beginnings are subtle, but bodily felt; a shift in the weather, the edge of Pesach (Passover), the flowing of maple sap, the anniversary of the first time we were told to stay home. We are moving into a seas[...]Posted 2 years ago
J-Pride Presents: A Zoom Concert and Open Mic on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 3 p.m. An afternoon of Jewish folk music by local performers, followed by an open mic. Tune in and listen, or come prepared to share a song of your own! A transcript will be available and we are working to secure ASL interpretatio[...]Posted 3 years ago
J-Pride is JFCS' program that works to engage Minnesota based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Jews and their allies to come together for social events, community gatherings, celebrations, and educational opportunities. (For more information on upcoming events and programming,[...]Posted 3 years ago
By Jayce Koester • J-Pride Coordinator JFCS celebrates the landmark U.S. Supreme Court civil rights decision on June 15 that protects LGBTQIA+ employees from workplace discrimination. This hard earned victory after generations of advocacy is a powerful tool to continue addressing ongoing oppre[...]Posted 4 years ago
J-Pride's activities in June included a Shabbat service, happy hour, parade marching and more By Jayce Koester • J-Pride Coordinator Leading up to Pride, I kept joking that our Jewish new year turns over at Rosh HaShanah, the gregorian new year turns over on Jan. 1 and the [...]Posted 4 years ago
By Jayce Koester • J-Pride Program Coordinator November is a month where we frequently mark the importance of transgender people in our communities and around the world. This includes Trans Day of Remembrance (Nov. 20) and Transgender Awareness Week (Nov. 12-19), not to mention the ya[...]