Dinner highlights identity crisis
"It's particularly difficult to be an LGBT Jew in a very kind of liberal left-wing world," Jarod Rhine-Davis said.
A SOLD-OUT Queer Rosh Hashanah dinner in South Yarra has highlighted the growing difficulties faced by LGBTQ Jews navigating identity conflicts within progressive political spaces.
More than 80 people attended the event at the Positive Living Centre on September 13, hosted by Melbourne LGBTQ Jewish organisation Jewmos in partnership with Thorne Harbour Health.
Jewmos director Jarod Rhine-Davis said the dinner aimed to address a community “in a chasm between two communities” as Jewish LGBTQ individuals increasingly find themselves unwelcome in spaces that once provided refuge.
“It’s particularly difficult to be an LGBT Jew in a very kind of liberal left-wing world,” Rhine-Davis said.
“A lot of people are in a chasm between two communities.”
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