Gender & Sexuality
Spicing Up Your Seder
As a rabbi who also happens to be a mother of small kids, I am often asked for creative ideas ...
Transgendered Hearts: Abraham, Sarah and Isaac
The Torah is strewn with transgendered hearts. How can that be true? The Torah, as we know, is not written ...
International Women’s Day: Torah from the Margins
Torah teaches that ancient Israelite women refused to donate their jewelry to build the Golden Calf. Instead they donated their ...
Releasing Your Burden: The Eshel Shabbaton
As we’ve explored in earlier posts by and about Orthodox Jews who are also LGBTQ (including a round-up of blogs, ...
LGBTQ Jewish Teen and Ally Shabbaton
We’ve been really inspired by the posts penned by some of the teens and staff who attended the LGBTQ Jewish ...
RebbetzOUT
Nobody prepares you for those odd, out-of-the-way problems life presents every once in a while. I grapple with one such ...
Parashat Mishpatim: Revolution is the Easy Part
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Schmekel: 100% Trans Jews
They invented the term 100% trans Jewcore, and as Schmekel they are rocking our world! Keshet caught up with the ...
Rock and Roll Jews
There’s acid rock, blues rock, glam rock, punk rock, and about 100 more variations of good ol’ rock and roll. ...
A Crash Course in Being a Professional Ally to LGBTQ Youth
“I have friends I can be Jewish with, and friends I can be queer with, but I’ve never had a ...
Living “Stealth,” As a Convert and a Trans Person
Even in a society that is making progress on LGBT issues, as demonstrated by the victories for marriage equality in ...
Parashat Bo: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...