June 2015

Why Are Joy’s Eyes Blue?

My wife makes fun of me when we watch Pixar movies, because whenever I see Up or the Toy Story trilogy or ...

Young Jews: Every Voice Matters

“For they (the teachings) are our life source, and what lengthen our days, and so we meditate on them day ...

I Desperately Want to Know…I am Not Just Asking

I was a 16-year old. My father (56), my younger sister (12) and I were walking home from the movies ...

Five Things that Happened at Jewish Camp this Week

1. Camp JCA Shalom unrolled their entire Torah, one of 1,564 scrolls recovered in Prague after the Holocaust, for the camp community to ...

Queer-Identified, Frum-Identified Jew in a Complicated Relationship with Orthodoxy

This morning The Torch,  a project of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, shared the heartwarming story of a family adjusting to ...

Founding Father

Correction: The report of Rabbi Lerner’s retirement was greatly exaggerated.* T&V was celebrating his contributions to the Jewish People that ...

We’re Here, We’re Queer, We Made Cholent!

[A digital rendering of this originally hand-written epistolary blog post can be found here.]June 19, 2015Hello and Happy Pride Month!I ...

On Making A Difference, Together

“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain ...

Leslie Feinberg: Activist & Author

This June Keshet is so very excited to be partnering with the Jewish Women’s Archive to celebrate Pride. Each week we will bring ...

Reb Zalman in the Andes

This piece is being published on the yahrzeit of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi of blessed memory, may his teachings endure. It begins like ...