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Sarah Weil

Jerusalem based LGBT activist, social entrepreneur, writer, religious Jew. Sarah serves as Director of Resource Development for the "Yerushalmit Movement", which builds a pluralistic Jerusalem.

Sarah is a lover of Jerusalem and is guided by the vision of Jerusalem as a house of prayer for all peoples. She is Director of Resource Development for the Yerushalmit Movement and runs "Meeting Place: Encounters in Zion Square", a initiative which grew as a grassroots response to the 2015 stabbing at the Jerusalem Pride Parade and the murder of Shira Banki. The project is transforming the public square from a place of suspicion and hostility into a center of constructive inter-sectional dialogue and community building. Sarah is Founder and Executive Director of Womens Gathering, which since 2011 produces LGBTQ cultural and arts events in partnership with local businesses, as well as incubates other LGBTQ Jerusalem initiatives, strengthening LGBTQ leadership and Jerusalems LGBTQ community. She previously was Community Development Director for the Elijah Interfaith Institute and volunteered doing organizational development for the orthodox lesbian organization Bat Kol. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lives in Jerusalem with her partner and two children.

October 13, 2016

Religious and Queer: Why the LGBT Movement needs Religion

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