Gender & Sexuality

“Some people will do anything to get out of synagogue on Simchat Torah” said my husband as we headed off ...

My three-year-old loves her preschool. Now in her third year there, she has friends she is close to, teachers she ...

The week is bracketed by two parades.  The first is on the holiday of Simchat Torah, when we complete the ...

“Imma I want an upsherin!” My daughter revealed this mid-way through her first year at a Chabad preschool, where she ...

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

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

Oliver Sacks is one of the most respected scientists today. The author of many best-selling books on the brain, he ...

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

New schools, classmates, and teachers can cause anxiety as the school year is getting ready to start. As parents, we ...

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

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

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