Celebrating Us - Adar 5785
Oy Vey is celebrating us this Adar (March 13) with a Purim Fest with and at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. We hope to see you there!
Adar!
Who needs a gender-bending, trans-loving, cis-inclusive space for Jewish joy this Purim? We do. That’s who. Do we have to tell you how important the support of LGBTQI+ rights are to all of us? Straight and not-so-straight? Queer and not-so-queer? Jewish lives are bound up in liberatory forms of expression. And that’s what this year’s Purim fest at the Jewish Museum promises. A big joyful laugh-out-loud hug for ourselves in all of our iterations.
13 March Get (un)dressed!
That’s the theme ☝️. The place is the 🕍 Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. The start time is 20.00 🕗. At midnight, some of us may turn into pumpkins🎃.
Let’s fill the space with joy. We need all we can get.
To help us do this, we have a tantalizing purim-spiel performance by the one and only Drag King KLAUS* and a lot more. Join us for a night of (un)dressing, community megillah reading, hamentaschen baking, a peek at the exhibition Sex: Jewish Positions, and dancing until the stroke of midnight.
Get (un)dressed! is happening on Thursday March 13th from 20:00 – 00:00 at the Jewish Museum. Get your tickets here!**
Dresscode
Concealing, Revealing, Cross-dressing: come dressed up as your true sizzling self, or the very opposite, or who you wish you were!
This Purim party is organised in collaboration with the JCK.
*KLAUS is a king from a faraway galaxy. He roams earth with a lust for the human experience. From stages in Germany to deserts in California, KLAUS delights with his sultry vocals and 70’s inspired looks. Some say he’s a mystic, but no one knows for sure…with KLAUS, anything goes.
**Tickets for the party are 10 euros. If this is in any way an impediment to you joining us, send us a message here and we will put you on the guest-list, no questions asked.
Read all about it here on the website
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Upcoming Events
Deviant Yeshiva
In collaboration with the LJG in Den Haag, the 2025 edition of the Deviant Yeshiva kicks off on 1 March with a discussion of Levinas’s thought-provoking essay: “Messianic Texts” from the book Difficult Freedom.
Register today! Send an email to reserveringen@ljgdenhaag.nl
If you can’t make it this coming Saturday, there are 4 more opportunities in addition to 1 March:
📅 MARCH 1 – Levinas, “Messianic Texts” from Difficult Liberty
📅 MARCH 29 – Walter Benjamin, selection from “On the Concept of History”
📅 MAY 3 – Hermann Cohen, “To Create Messianic Time: A Jewish Critique of Political Utopia” from Ethics of Maimonides
📅 JUNE 7 – Gershom Scholem, “On Jonah and the Concept of Justice”
📅 JULY 12 – A surprise!
You can find all Deviant Yeshiva events on this website
22 March – Havdalah Reimagined
Havdalah Reimagined with Tali Gross and Lievnath Faber is an Oy Vey favorite. You don’t have to know anything about Havdalah to join. The evening is a pause between the rest of the Shabbat and hubbub of our everyday lives. Read more on our website:Havdalah Reimagined
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Research on everyday experiences of ‘mixedness’
For a research project at VU Amsterdam, I’m looking for Jewish/non-Jewish couples to participate. The research focuses on everyday experiences of ‘mixedness’ with a specific focus on antisemitism. I am a postdoctoral researcher in a broader research project on mixed relationship and have previously studied Jewish conversion and the relation between religion and gender. The aim of this research is to understand the impact of societal/political issues on intimate relationships. I’m also interested to see to if and how Jewish practices or norms change in a mixed relationship, as well as how the private sphere can be a space of critique or confirmation. Participation is confidential and entails interview(s) with all partners together or individually. Interviews can be done in English or Dutch. The project is explicitly (but not exclusively) open to LGBTQI+ partners and all varieties of Jewish identity. Would you like to participate? Or do you have any other questions? Send me a message at l.l.schrijvers@vu.nl
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