Honored to be invited to speak about our family journey and Jewish parenting values at the beautfiul Alpert JCC in Long Beach as their LGBTQ Pride Month speaker. The JCC did an outstanding job publicizing the talk and provided the space and the refreshments. We had good attendance. This was my 3rd talk about JewishContinue reading “Pride Month Author Talk at Alpert JCC”
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Speaking at a Temple Beth Am / IKAR event
I had some pretty big shoes to fill last night. My talk about raising adoptive kids Jewish was scheduled alongside four others, immediately following a plenary featuring LA’s two most distinguished rabbis: Rabbi Elliot Dorff and Rabbi Sharon Brous. I was nervous, but I came prepared with an assortment of sources from classical Jewish textsContinue reading “Speaking at a Temple Beth Am / IKAR event”
Speaking about Jewish parenting values
Jewish parenting values I learned throughout our foster-adoptive family journey was the central theme of my talk at the historic Temple Beth El of San Pedro, California. I had a lot to share and quite a few sources to bring in. Here are just a couple of Midrashic soures on the Jewish view of adoption.Continue reading “Speaking about Jewish parenting values”
Book talk at 2 LA congregations
Tour stop #2 – this time on Zoom! On April 17, I spoke at the joint online Lunch-and-Learn of two LGBTQ-affirming LA synagogues: Beth Chayim Chadashim and Congregation Kol Ami. Moderated by Rabbi Jillian Cameron (BCC), my one-hour talk focused mostly on our story depicted in A Family, Maybe and on Jewish values in parenting. There was aContinue reading “Book talk at 2 LA congregations”
Lane Igoudin | Author, Professor, Dad 