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Shul Fundraising & an Orthodox Community Visits a Gay Bar

This week on the podcast we’re talking about synagogue fundraising, and about a Modern Orthodox shul’s visit to a gay bar after the massacre in an Orlando gay bar.

Further reading

Synagogue Fundraising
Running a Successful Shul Dinner in Shul Politics
What the Shekel Teaches: Ten Commandments for Synagogue Fundraising in EJewishPhilanthropy

Congregation Ohev Shalom Visits a Gay Bar
What happened when an Orthodox Jewish congregation went to a gay bar to mourn Orlando by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld in the Washington Post
Why So-Called Orthodox LGBT ‘Allies’ Are Doing It All Wrong by Joshua Tranen in the Forward

Endorsements

Zahava recommends going to New Orleans and eating the kosher beignets in Cafe DuMonde, and the general notion of hechshering with tourists in mind, with a shout out to Rabbi Gabe Greenberg, who currently supervises the Cafe DuMonde beignets.

Mimi recommends Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld, and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

Tamar recommends Bava Metzia 23b, Because Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said In these three things the Rabbis were accustomed to change their words (i.e. lie) In their tractates, and their beds, and their hospitality. Especially the Tosfot on “and their beds.”