Pride Month is a time of celebration. At the same time, Jewish LGBTQ+ youth and families, are facing new challenges. Challenges to basic rights, discrimination in schools, and challenges to participating as their full selves in both Jewish and queer communities.

How do we show up for the queer teens in our lives with honesty, love, and hope? How do we create spaces for the fullness and range of Jewish queer identities?

Join Moving Traditions for a special Pride Month conversation with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum — one of America’s most celebrated LGBTQ+ Jewish leaders — as we explore what it means to embrace queer and Jewish identity in full, even when the world makes that hard.

Rabbi Kleinbaum will reflect on finding joy and meaning as a queer Jewish person across decades of change; how Jewish values call us to embrace and protect LGBTQ+ youth; and what it looks like to hold celebration and protest, pride and grief, all at once.

As Jews, we are inheritors of a tradition of strength and resilience. As parents and caring adults, we know that our LGBTQ+ teens need us to see them, celebrate them, and stand with them — especially now.

We will also hear from teens in Moving Traditions’ programs who will share what they need from the adults in their lives this Pride Month and beyond.

This free webinar, moderated by Rabbi Daniel Brenner, who works to model allyship as a Jewish parent and educator, will include practical takeaways and resources to help you support the queer Jewish teens in your life.