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My Name is Yusha
Any run-in with a Russian bathhouse is bound to shock: men chugging bottles of beer-like kvass, felt hats helping them ...
Yes, I’m Celebrating a New Jewish Holiday Today
Let’s make a new Jewish holiday.Wait…what?Let’s make a new Jewish holiday. When I opened a recent daily e-mail from The ...
An Open Letter to Everyone Who Asks Me Why I’m Still Here
This is the second post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...
How My Wedding Made Me Feel More Jewish and More Gay
This week on Kveller, Rita Collins told her story of falling in love, facing discrimination, growing her family, and getting ...
A Controversial Clarification
This is the first post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...
No More Whispers
What can happen when we take mikvah out of the realm of the hidden, and bring it into a space ...
The Soul of Each and Every Individual
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...
Freedom & Community: It Turns Out America’s Birthday is Pretty LGBT Friendly.
The Fourth of July is one of those official summer milestones. No matter what part of the country you’re from, ...
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,” ...
JOFA Kickstarter Celebrates Women Scholars
For millennia, it has been taken for granted that the place for Jewish women was in the home and in ...
What Happens After June?
This past month, we shared stories of LGBT and Jewish Pride.We heard from Jordan, who reflected on how his LGBT identity ...
What Can Southern Jews Teach The Rest of Us About Intermarriage and Outreach?
Usually we think of small, southern communities as being at least a beat behind their larger counterparts, especially when they ...