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Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
20 years of inspiring and provoking Welcome to our third installment of “Queer Clergy in Action,” spotlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...
Belles of the Wall
By Education Fellow Amanda WinerI first heard about Women of the Wall as a counselor in training at Eisner Camp ...
Gay, Orthodox, and on the Internet
The Internet has proven to be a powerful resource for the LGBTQ community, and especially so for those members who ...
Joseph: Liberation of a Soul
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Kavod ha’Meit: Trans Issues for the Hevra Kadisha
Judaism, a religion that focuses primarily on life, rather than the afterlife, provides a meticulous set of standards regarding the ...
Intermarriage and Multicultural Families
Like it or not, intermarriage is a fact in Jewish life.And for the most part the Jewish community has learned ...
Arise! Arise! The Back Story
I’ve adored illuminated manuscripts all my life — as a child and teenager, these were the postcards I’d take home ...
Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Reuben Zellman
Welcome to our second installment of “Queer Clergy in Action” spotlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender rabbis and cantors. This ...
Tazria-Metzora: Torah for World AIDS Day
In honor of World AIDS Day on December 1, we bring you a meditation on the connection between tzara’at, a ...
Make Your Community All-Gender Inclusive
We hear from trans-activists (including on this blog – see yesterday’s interview with Nick Teich) that one impediment to transgender ...
A Guide to the (Not So) Complex: An Interview with Nick Teich
Nick Teich is a busy person. In between pursuing a Ph.D. in social policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for ...
And Jacob Came Out…
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...