Zeh oh Zeh (This or That)
Performance (7 minute duration) leather, plaster,
1.
ב חַסְדֵי יְהוָה, עוֹלָם אָשִׁירָה; לְדֹר וָדֹר, אוֹדִיעַ אֱמוּנָתְךָ בְּפִי.
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever; to all generations will I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth.
ג כִּי-אָמַרְתִּי--עוֹלָם, חֶסֶד יִבָּנֶה; שָׁמַיִם, תָּכִן אֱמוּנָתְךָ בָהֶם.
For I have said: 'For ever is mercy built; in the very heavens Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness.
Psalms 89
2. “The generation of the Flood was not blotted out of the world until they had begun writing nuptial hymns for marriages between males or between man and beast.”
Rabbi Enoch, Genesis Rabbah 1805
3. We mourn and we grieve but we shall not despair nor shall we abandon their vision of a beautiful and unique city whose heart shall be great enough to embrace all of its people lovingly all human beings with compassion. Rabbi Alvin Fine at Harvey Milk and George Mascone’s memorial service 1978
4. Jerusalem 2005 and 2015, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man[1] stabbed pride parade marchers with a knife, resulting in three injuries in the first instance and in six injuries, one fatal in the second. The man arrested, Yishai Schlissel, was jailed after the 2005 attack, and was released from imprisonment three weeks before he attacked again in 2015
5. “Be open to change… even if it’s not the way things are usually done.”
Rabbi Reuben Zellman the first openly transgender person accepted to the Reform Jewish seminary Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2003.
6. 2017: three Dyke-March participants holding rainbow star of david flags are asked to leave Chicago LGBT march. The rainbow flags with the Jewish symbol "made people feel unsafe", an organiser stated.
7. In 2018 the first ever written guidance of LGBT people within Orthodox schools, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis states, “Our children need to know that at school, at home and in the community, they will be loved and protected regardless of their sexuality or gender identity.”
8. “I am a proud homophobe, the gathering in which you speak is a parade of beasts” Bezalel Yoel Smotrich, elected member of the Knesset and 2019 political leader of the Israeli National Union Faction.
Baruch atah Ado-nai, Elo-heinu melech ha’olam, asher kideshanu b’mitzvotav, v’tzivanu l’haniach tefillin.
Performance (7 minute duration) leather, plaster,
1.
ב חַסְדֵי יְהוָה, עוֹלָם אָשִׁירָה; לְדֹר וָדֹר, אוֹדִיעַ אֱמוּנָתְךָ בְּפִי.
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever; to all generations will I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth.
ג כִּי-אָמַרְתִּי--עוֹלָם, חֶסֶד יִבָּנֶה; שָׁמַיִם, תָּכִן אֱמוּנָתְךָ בָהֶם.
For I have said: 'For ever is mercy built; in the very heavens Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness.
Psalms 89
2. “The generation of the Flood was not blotted out of the world until they had begun writing nuptial hymns for marriages between males or between man and beast.”
Rabbi Enoch, Genesis Rabbah 1805
3. We mourn and we grieve but we shall not despair nor shall we abandon their vision of a beautiful and unique city whose heart shall be great enough to embrace all of its people lovingly all human beings with compassion. Rabbi Alvin Fine at Harvey Milk and George Mascone’s memorial service 1978
4. Jerusalem 2005 and 2015, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man[1] stabbed pride parade marchers with a knife, resulting in three injuries in the first instance and in six injuries, one fatal in the second. The man arrested, Yishai Schlissel, was jailed after the 2005 attack, and was released from imprisonment three weeks before he attacked again in 2015
5. “Be open to change… even if it’s not the way things are usually done.”
Rabbi Reuben Zellman the first openly transgender person accepted to the Reform Jewish seminary Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2003.
6. 2017: three Dyke-March participants holding rainbow star of david flags are asked to leave Chicago LGBT march. The rainbow flags with the Jewish symbol "made people feel unsafe", an organiser stated.
7. In 2018 the first ever written guidance of LGBT people within Orthodox schools, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis states, “Our children need to know that at school, at home and in the community, they will be loved and protected regardless of their sexuality or gender identity.”
8. “I am a proud homophobe, the gathering in which you speak is a parade of beasts” Bezalel Yoel Smotrich, elected member of the Knesset and 2019 political leader of the Israeli National Union Faction.
Baruch atah Ado-nai, Elo-heinu melech ha’olam, asher kideshanu b’mitzvotav, v’tzivanu l’haniach tefillin.