Keshet

Keshet is a national organization that works for LGBTQ equality in Jewish life. The organization equips Jewish leaders with tools to build LGBTQ-affirming communities, creates spaces for queer Jewish teens to feel valued and develop their own leadership skills, and mobilizes the Jewish community to fight for LGBTQ justice. Keshet’s blog spotlights this work, as well as the voices of LGBTQ Jews, our families, and allies.

A Report from the Field: Keshet at the Hillel Institute

  Hillel International is the largest Jewish group for college students, with campus presence at over 550 schools in the ...

What I Learned in College

With back-to-school season upon us, Julie Sugar reminisces on what she learned at college…as an educator, not a student. Julie’s ...

Orthodox and Coming Out…As an Ally

In January 2012, Keshet’s Director of Special Projects, Gregg Drinkwater, addressed audiences at Limmud Colorado, a conference dedicated to advancing ...

Blessings and Curses: What’s in a Binary?

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

Five Things That Make Us Go Ummm

In the course of our work to create and nurture welcoming, inclusive, Jewish communities, we have the privilege of working ...

Bind These Words

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

Jewish, LGBT And Looking For…: Your One-Stop Shop for Jewish Institutions

Looking for a day school that offers materials listing “Parent 1/Parent 2” instead of “Mother/Father”?Want to find a synagogue that ...

Joy Ladin’s Door of Life

Talking to Joy Ladin is like speaking with your favorite professor from college — the one who wove words in ...

Say Hello to “Bye June”

It’s not a stretch to call it an Internet sensation — a gorgeous music video about two (same-sex) swans who ...

History, Memory and the Making of Community

Each week Jews read sections of the Torah, known as parshiyot, inspiring endless examination year after year. Each week we we ...