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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 ...