Yiddish LGBTQ Pride vocab

Passing on from Workers' Circle: "Pride Month is the perfect time to learn these Yiddish words, chants, and slogans for Queer Jews and allies."

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Inclusive gay & Jewish community since the 1970s

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum says:

"The Jewish community was behind the Christian, especially the Protestant community was — In the '60s There were Proetstant priests and ministers who were great leaders of the LGBT movement or lesbian and gay movement. And in 1973 when CBST was founded, there was not a single rabbi, not a single Jewish organization, not a single synagogue, not a single Jewish civil rights organization which supported gay rights. So CBST was founded and the LGBT movement was founded by lesbians and gay men in quite a hostile environment. Really before synagogues like CBST started, or BCC in Los Angeles which was three months beore CBST, you had to make a choice: you had to either...live a gay life but there was no way you could go into a Jewish community, or you could live a Jewish life and sublimate or live a secret life or live a hidden life as a gay person. So it wasn't until 19 — the end of '72 or '73 that there was anything in the Jewish world that was different."
— start at 35:35, and focusing especially starting at 37:29–38:42

Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC) — Los Angeles
Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) — New York

Kleinbaum goes on to cite Evan Wolfson, Paul Kaplan, Larry Kramer as Jewish leaders for LGBT civil rights.

Constellation Protection Prayer: Audio on Bandcamp

Another new find

"The Constellation Protection Prayer is an adaptation of the Angel Prayer invoked at the end of the Bedtime Shema.

This is a practice one can do at night when going to sleep, or when going to a medical appointment, or joining a protest—really any time one needs to call in connection, accompaniment, ancestors, protection to surround us."

released August 1, 2023
Guided prayer offering and vocals: Cole Krawitz
Song Vocals: Batya Levine batyalevine.bandcamp.com
Melody: HaMalach HaGoel by Abie Rotenberg
Audio Editing: Batya Levine

On Bandcamp, you can listen online for free, or you can pay $9 to download the track and support the creators.

'Monsters and Demons in Jewish Folklore' (podcast episode)

"Podcast: Monsters and Demons in Jewish Folklore: Leviathan, Behemoth and other primordial beasts, demon royalty, giants and more terrifying tales from the Talmud and Tanach." (Jewish Boston, Oct 26, 2020)