(NAME-MCE) 20th World Conference of GLBT Jews August 13-15, 2010 Los Angeles CA

[Anselmo Villanueva]

Registration is now open for the  20th World Conference of GLBT Jews

August 13-15, 2010    UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, California.

Super early-bird discounts are now available until Jan. 31, 2010:

$225 for individual members of the World Congress and members of our member
organizations, as well as full-time students.

$250 for non-members.

Register now at www.la2010.org

You are invited to Los Angeles 2010, the 20th World Conference of GLBT Jews!
We are pleased to welcome all of you, since it has been 18 years since Los
Angeles hosted an international conference. Our hard-working conference
committee is eager put on a conference to remember. Please save the dates,
August 13 - 15, 2010 and join us by registering now. We look forward to
seeing old friends and meeting new ones!

Our conference is to be held at the warm and welcoming Hillel at UCLA, a
spacious and modern three-floor building on the east side of the UCLA
campus, which can accommodate a large group of 200 or more for services,
seminars, and kosher meals. We are also working with the UCLA Faculty Center
across the street as a venue for our Saturday evening entertainment.
World-class speakers and leaders in the Jewish and GLBT communities will be
giving seminars and will be welcoming the world to our conference.

The hosting organizations for this world-class event are:

Congregation Beth Chayim Chadashim - Congregation Kol Ami - JQ International
- Mishpacha UCLA - Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation at HUC.

Los Angeles is a vibrant, warm, multicultural city with plenty of history,
both GLBT and Jewish. It was here that the world s first gay and lesbian
synagogue, Beth Chayim Chadashim, was founded. Los Angeles was the site of
both the 3rd and 7th International Conferences of Gay and Lesbian Jews (as
they were then known) in 1978 and 1982 respectively. These conferences were
hosted by BCC, a founding member organization of the World Congress. In the
1990s, two regional conferences were held here: one at Gindling Hilltop Camp
in 1992, organized by BCC, and one in the city in 1994, co-hosted by BCC and
Congregation Kol Ami.

Exciting highlights of our conference will include a splendid variety of
activities, including:

* Warm and welcoming erev shabbat services, led by our wonderful clergy

* Keynote Speaker Elissa Barrett of the Progressive Jewish Alliance

* World Congress of GLBT Jews Leadership Awardee to be announced soon!

* General sessions

* A variety of fascinating breakout sessions

* Saturday evening havdalah, gala dinner, and stellar entertainment

* A performance by the Beth Chayim Chadashim klezmer band, Gay Gezunt

* Four delicious meals are included

* Socializing, networking, and meeting new friends

* Time to explore the UCLA campus, Westwood Village, the beaches, and West
Hollywood

The conference is going to be held on the campus of UCLA, which is close to
the beaches as well as West Hollywood. Additionally, the greater Los Angeles
area offers a plethora of interesting attractions and diversions.