Saturday, June 14 - Sunday, June 15, 2025

Join Temple Emanu-El and TEQ for a weekend full of meaning and fun! Pride Shabbat Weekend this year will include:

• Shabbat Morning Services with special d’var torah from Rabbi Steven Greenberg
• Shabbat afternoon study session with Rabbi Steven Greenberg, followed by Minhah
• Sunday morning brunch with a screening of "The Holy Closet" and a panel discussion/Q&A with Rabbi Steven Greenberg (register now)

About Rabbi Steve Gteenberg: 

Steve is an Orthodox rabbi, ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Early in his career he served as a senior educator for the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL), a think tank and training institute where he worked as an educator, curriculum writer, lecturer and consultant on wide variety of cutting edge projects on the ethics, environment, social justice and communal leadership.

Steve is the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi and a founder of the Jerusalem Open House, the Holy City’s GLBT community center. In 2001, Steve appeared in the documentary Trembling Before G-d, and joined with the filmmaker to create a worldwide outreach project conducting over 500 post-screening community dialogues all over the world. In 2004, he finished a decade-long project, a book entitled Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, which explores biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and contemporary Jewish responses to same-sex relationships (University of Wisconsin Press) for which he won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought.

Rabbi Greenberg is presently the Founding Director of Eshel, a support, education, and advocacy organization for LGBT+ Orthodox Jews and their families. He lives with his partner, Steven Goldstein, and their daughter, Amalia, in Boston.