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Fighting To Be Invisible
I often wonder what my life would look like were I a few years younger. Given how quickly the world ...
Accumulating Things Or, Then Again … Nothing
We read in Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Sages: “Who is happy?” The answer: “The one who is satisfied ...
From Greatness Comes Mercy
I recently began studying a new book with my chevruta (study partner), Musar HaTorah v’aYahadut, written by Rabbi Aharon Shmuel ...
A Life Cut Short: Remembering May Peleg-Friedman
May Peleg-Friedman, the Jerusalem Open House’s first trans chairperson and former owner of Jerusalem’s only queer nightclub “Mikveh” took her ...
Does A Rabbi Have To Be A Role Model?
It’s over a month now since the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College announced that it would consider intermarried candidates for admission to ...
Reform and Transgender & Non-Gender Conforming Jews
The history of transgender and non-gender conforming people in the Reform Movement goes back further than we might initially realize. ...
Finding Community, Finding a Role Model
Throughout the month, in partnership with RAVSAK, Keshet is celebrating 10 years of Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School. ...
Artistic Vision
The multipurpose room behind the prayer space — social hall behind the sanctuary — is transformed into an art gallery. ...
When a Zoroastrian and a Jew Walked into a Mikvah
It is like clockwork. You can expect someone to raise the following argument every single time anything new is being ...
For My House Shall Be a House of Prayer for All People
“For my house shall be a house of prayer for all people.” (Isaiah 56:5)We learn from the Torah that God ...
The Birth of a Female Orthodox Rabbinate
When I was ordained as a rabbi, a little under two years ago, my husband hosted a lovely party at ...
Going Beyond Walls with Fellow Clergy at the Kenyon Institute
This summer I went back to college. To be honest, it felt nothing like being on my own college campus ...