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I am a Queer Activist Because I am a Jew

I spend my workdays gathering and leveraging financial resources for grassroots community organizers and artists working at the intersection of ...

Please Consider My Case

“You’ll see, he won’t want to leave in the end,” my wife, Cynthia, said. “He’s going to have the time ...

Summer Camp, Life Skills and Confidence

In partnership with The Jewish Week’s “The New Normal” blog, FJC is pleased to present a series of blog posts ...

Just Your Typical Interfaith, Interethnic Two-Dad Family

Last week on the blog, S. Bear Bergman of the Flamingo Rampant Book Club issued a call for children’s books that ...

The Flamingo Rampant Book Club

At Keshet we know how important it is to provide diverse resources for families. Last year we worked with author Elisabeth ...

What Does Inclusion Look Like?

Last week I stood in a room full of Jewish leaders who made me hopeful about the future of the ...

Cold Feet

Later this month, my fifteen-year-old son, Jonah, is off to Camp B’Nai Brith (CBB) in the Laurentians, about an hour ...

Never/ Yes Again

On June 20th, 2014, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann offered the following words of prayer at the UJA-Federation’s “Community Conversation on LGBTQ Engagement,” ...

Togetherness Squared

For the last four summers, whenever my wife, Cynthia, and I have put our son, Jonah, on the bus to ...

Easy Money

For the last few days, I’ve been walking around the house singing and dancing more or less in tune and ...

Chaos Theory

When you’re the parent of a child with autism, you’re always bracing yourself for the endless string of theories headed ...

Inclusion at Jewish Camp

Last week, the Foundation for Jewish Camp hosted our biennial conference, Leaders Assembly, in New Jersey.  The topic of inclusion ...