Gender & Sexuality

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

Welcome to our fifth installment of “Queer Clergy in Action,” spotlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rabbis and cantors. This ...

Creating inclusive Jewish spaces is a great goal — but how do you do it? While the answer is likely ...

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

According to Jewish Law it is the practice to refrain from getting married between Passover and Shavuot – until Lag B’Omer ...

[Editor’s Note: This post is not our typical “Southern & Jewish” fare; one of our contributors, Rabbi Marshal Klaven, wanted ...

I’ve never been one to have high expectations. I tend to take situations as they come and to be spontaneous ...

Creating inclusive Jewish spaces is a great goal — but how do you do it? While the answer is likely ...

There’s a new player on the Jewish blog scene, and it’s not holding back. Jewrotica is a “pluralistic and sex-positive organization ...

On March 26, 2007, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the legal and spiritual center for Conservative Judaism in America, ...

Today’s post features more Jewish history from Kentucky, the most recent state completed in our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities.  When ...

“If it doesn’t bring more love into the world, it probably isn’t religion.” The date was October 13, 2010, and ...