Day 2 of a 3 day Hanukah programme. Ritual Reconstructed: Challenges to disconnection, division and exclusion in the Jewish LGBTQI+ communities

We are delighted to invite you to take part in an online interdisciplinary symposium which builds and expands upon the AHRC funded project Ritual Reconstructed:challenges to disconnection, division and exclusion in the Jewish LGBTQI+ community

https://ritualreconstructed.com/ (a project which ran between 2014-16 with intermittent ‘pop-up’ events in the years since).For 2020, we present:

Ritual Reconstructed Revisited: continuity and signalling the future.Half-day panels and events will take place on the 15th (am); 16th (pm) and 17th (am) December.

(Please follow eventbrite links for the programmes on the 15th and 17th December).

DAY TWO (16th December)

12 noon - Open/Recap of Day One - Dr Searle Kochberg

PANEL THREE: 12.15-1.30 " Mental Health, Well-Being, Recognition and Respect : the LBGTQI+ Jewish experience”

1.30 Break

PANEL FOUR: 1.35-2.50 "LGBTQI+ Jewish Representation and the Arts"

2.50-3.00 Break

PANEL 5 : 3.00-4.15 "LGBTQI+ Jewish intersectional identities"

Break 4.14-4.30

4.30pm - Hanukah Candle Lighting (led by LGBTQI+ Rabbis)

4.40-5.30 - Online schmooze and chat with the Rabbis, Panels and Delegates. Bring your own doughnuts/drinks/Hannukiah /Chocolate Gelt/Dreidl!

nb: create/draw/decorate your own LGBTQI+ Dreidl - what symbols would you use? and Why? - you can upload images and a note about your Dreidl on the Ritual Reconstructed page

END 5.30

"The Ritual Reconstructed team are committed to promoting equality and inclusivity in all events and activities. All Ritual Reconstructed event participants receive equal treatment regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, sex and sex characteristics, faith/belief/religion, ethnic, racial or socio-economic background, immigration status, age or ability.

We operate a zero-tolerance approach to any delegate or project participant being subjected to harm, threats of harm, bullying and harassment, discrimination, or any inappropriate behaviour or language, and reserve the right to remove event delegates who display abusive and harmful behaviour from the symposium, with immediate effect.

The Ritual Reconstructed team are committed to equality, inclusivity and diversity and we stand in solidarity with BAME/PoC colleagues and communities.

To illustrate our core commitment to inclusivity and recognition, we utilise the Progress Pride Flag in our project materials (which incorporates the Trans flag colours, and references LGBT+ PoC), alongside the Ritual Reconstructed logo (by Wyman Babbage) and the Intersex Jewish Pride Flag specially created by Martin DiMaggio for this event in recognition of communities who are not routinely included in LGBT+ iconography"