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What Playing Games Can Teach Us About Prayer

While I certainly use my iPhone to check my e-mail and make calls, far and away, what really drains my ...

The Maid of Ludomir

A Queer Ancestor in the Butch-Trans Border WarAs the month of Tammuz draws to a close, we have the opportunity ...

Rabbis Speak Out for Equality

On July 1st, Massachusetts moved one step closer to living up to its reputation as the birthplace of democracy – ...

Who Are Your Characters Really?

It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ...

Circumspect Conversations about Circumcision

This week we heard news from Germany that a regional court ruled that circumcision amounts to bodily harm, even if ...

Gay at Camp

I love camp. I loved it before I even really knew what it was. I remember watching a camp promotional ...

My First “Freedom Ride”

A couple of years ago I learned about a new front in the internal Israeli struggle over religious freedom: gender ...

Recasting a Classic

Francesca Segal’s novel The Innocents is now available.I would never have set out to recast a classic, Pulitzer-winning American novel– it ...

Welcome to the Keshet Blog!

We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re finally coming out…with a blog. We know we’re a decade or so behind schedule, ...

Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading

As a public speaker and comic book educator, people often ask me to recommend comic books or graphic novels of ...

Graphic Memoir: The Legacy of Harvey Pekar

JT Waldman co-authored and illustrated the new graphic novel Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me with writer and frequent ...

The Love/Hate of Obamacare

 A few posts ago, while the Supreme Court was still hearing arguments on the legality of the Healthcare Act, I ...

My Pekar Years

I met Harvey Pekar in 2005. On a whim, I gave him a copy of my book, and he really liked ...

Having it All

Reading Anne- Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” has caused me to wonder, ...

Albert Einstein: A Highly Committed Jew

Albert Einstein may have been the most famous Jew of the 20th century. His biographer Walter Isaacson described that “when he ...

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