Advocacy

Make Your Voice Heard

A strange thing happened in the wake of the election, and is intensifying now that the inauguration is next week.People ...

Saying No to Silencing: The Jewish Duty to Speak Out

Spirituality is biography. Jewish spirituality and Jewish biography both demand a duty to speak out, reject silencing, and stand up against any ...

Paying The Price For Being Single

In 2001, at the age of 52, I went from being Single and Orthodox to Married and (still) Orthodox. That ...

Domestic Violence and Guns

Over the past several decades, we have made great progress in moving beyond the days when domestic violence was considered ...

Take a Stand: Don’t Let Religion Become a Weapon

In Pirkei Avot 2:10 we are taught that Rabbi Eliezer said, יהי כבוד חברך חביב עליך כשלך “Let your neighbor’s dignity be precious ...

How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 3

Part 3 in this series features Shelly Weiss, the queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, as ...

How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 2

Shelly Weiss, an iconic self-defined queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, is the subject of this ...

Why the Jewish Community Needs to Discuss Sex Trafficking

“Sarah” had a pretty average childhood, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish home in New York City with her mother, ...

Cheryl Moch & Cinderella’s Real True Story

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

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 ...