LGBTQ

Queer at a Jewish Boarding School in North Carolina

My journey of figuring out my sexual orientation began when I was 12 years old and living in a suburb of ...

After Creating Change: Standing in Solidarity

This past weekend, the National LGBTQ Task Force convened its annual Creating Change Conference. Founded in 1998, the Task Force’s ...

Queer Jews of Color: We Belong

It is powerful to see yourself reflected in history, in a story, or even in a room. That power is ...

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 ...

How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss

Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...

Mourning & Action

Our hearts are heavy.This past Thursday evening marked the onset of Tu B’Av, the traditional Jewish holiday celebrating love. Yet ...

Reflections from a Former Matchmaker

Tu B’Av was once a day when unwed women of Jerusalem dressed in white and congregated in local vineyards to ...

Tu B’Av and (Self) Love

Tu B’Av may be considered a minor Jewish holiday, but it feels especially appropriate to recognize in light of the ...

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 ...