Next Service: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 8:00 am
  • Full Calendar Listing
  • Livestream
  • Service Schedule
  • Subscribe
  • Give
Logo BJ
  • Welcome
    • What We Believe
    • Meet the Team
    • Our History
    • Our Campus
    • What to Expect
    • Multifaith & Multiheritage Families
  • Explore
    • Program Guide
    • Music
    • Adult Learning
    • Family & Youth
    • Aviv (20s, 30s, & 40s)
    • Pesah

    Preparing for Pesah

  • Participate
    • Full Calendar Listing
    • Service Schedule
    • This Shabbat at BJ
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Havurot & Small Groups

    A hub for everything happening this Shabbat.

  • Join
    • Membership
    • Kadima@BJ
    • Careers

Welcome

  • What We Believe
  • Meet the Team
  • Our History
  • Our Campus
  • What to Expect
  • Multifaith & Multiheritage Families

Explore

  • Program Guide
  • Music
  • Adult Learning
  • Family & Youth
  • Aviv (20s, 30s, & 40s)
  • Pesah

Participate

  • Full Calendar Listing
  • Service Schedule
  • This Shabbat at BJ
  • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Havurot & Small Groups

Join

  • Membership
  • Kadima@BJ
  • Careers

Home > Programs > LGBTQ+
Home > Programs > LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+

B’nai Jeshurun is a safe place to be who you are. It is a Jewish sanctuary for anyone who wants to come together with others to explore and exercise your spirituality and your role in the community.

Menu
Close Menu

PROGRAM DETAILS

  • Pride
  • Blog Posts and Articles
  • Pronouns

Since our renaissance in the 1980s, members of the LGBTQIA+ community have been a core part of our kehillah. We committed early on to establishing a unique haven particularly for all kinds of Jewish searchers, or for those who have felt ill at ease or even unwelcome elsewhere.

While we celebrate that there are now fewer instances of this deplorable behavior toward gay men, lesbians, bisexual, transgender, and queer folk who seek a spiritual home, we know it still happens, sadly, and that some people have had trouble finding a Jewish community where they feel accepted for their whole selves.

We open our arms wide to all those who want to sing, worship, and work together, for one another, as a kahal—a collective, engaged Jewish enterprise. We took an active part in the fight for marriage equality and have rejoiced in celebrating many same-sex marriages since then. Allying with marginalized populations has always been a key part of our social justice work, which is itself central to our entire synagogue mission.

As a proud member of the UJA-Keshet Leadership Project, BJ maintains a partnership with Keshet, an organization that builds LGBTQIA-affirming communities, creates spaces in which all queer Jewish youth feel seen and valued, and advances LGBTQIA+ rights nationwide.

Pride


BJ has a long history of honoring the holiness and dignity of all human beings, of all gender identities and sexual orientations.

Learn More

Blog Posts and Articles


Read our latest blog posts and articles from Pride 2022 here.

Read Now

Pronouns


BJ is a diverse community, and we strive to be inclusive, accepting, and embracing of all. In order to more explicitly demonstrate respect and acceptance of members from our community who are transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming, many of us have recently begun to use gender pronouns in our staff email signatures. In doing so, we are joining a growing number of individuals and organizations who do this as a way to say “you belong here” to people who have often felt marginalized, especially in Jewish spaces.

We know that not everyone shares their pronouns in this way, or that this practice may be unfamiliar. If you have any questions about this practice and would like to discuss, please feel free to reach out to our staff.

We also invite you to read these recent articles about gender identity and pronouns, as well as some Jewish communal responses.

Articles & Resources


Prayer for Entering Gender Affirming Procedures

Article on Name Changing for Jews

A Prayer on Coming Out

Blessings for Gender Transitioning

Pronoun Resources

Keshet—For LGBTQ equality in Jewish Life

LGBTQ+ Stories from Minyan during Pride month in 2020

Watch Past Pride Programs

Popular Links

  • Service Schedule
  • Event Calendar
  • Program Directory
  • Make a Gift
  • Membership
BJ Logo
  • Welcome
    • What We Believe
    • Meet the Team
    • Our History
    • Our Campus
    • What to Expect
    • Multifaith & Multiheritage Families
    • BJ Community Covenant
  • Explore
    • Full Calendar Listing
    • Services & Events by Month
    • Adult Learning
    • Family & Youth
    • Aviv 20s, 30s, & 40s
  • Pray With Us
    • Daily Minyan Online
    • Family & Youth Service Schedule
    • Complete Service Schedule
  • Quick Links
    • Rent Our Spaces
    • Careers
    • Membership
    • Congregational School (Kadima@BJ)
    • Make a Gift
    • Pay My Balance

Synagogue

257 West 88th Street
New York, NY 10024
(Between Broadway
and West End Avenue)

Community House

270 West 89th Street
New York, NY 10024
T: 212-787-7600
F: 212-496-7600

Contact Us

T: 212-787-7600
F: 212-496-7600
info@bj.org

Shabbat Service Times

Join Live

 

Kabbalat Shabbat
Fridays
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

 

Shabbat Morning Services
Saturdays
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Copyright © 2023 B'nai Jeshurun.  All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy
B’nai Jeshurun is a charitable organization exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our EIN is 13-0594858.