Orthodox

The Other

Growing up in Orthodox Brooklyn, all that was forbidden to us was, by its nature, exotic. We did not have ...

Double Vision

Perhaps after I was born, someone sneaked into the hospital nursery and instead of snatching me, stood above me and ...

Let’s Dance at The Kotel

The recent reports of women being dragged from the Kotel — the Western Wall — while Torah scrolls were ripped ...

Us and Them: We are the Same

Recently a Freshman at Harvard wrote about his first experience at the Harvard Hillel in a op ed to The ...

Senior Year: APs, College Prep, and Coming Out in My Orthodox High School

 When I tell my friends who are not Orthodox that I’m out of the closet and attending a Modern Orthodox ...

It Takes a Community: Katrina, Recovery, Resilience

Hurricane Katrina (and the man-made disaster of the levee breaks) struck Louisiana and Mississippi seven years ago today, with devastating ...

Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Steve Greenberg

As someone who is involved in Jewish LGBT work, I am often surprised people tell me that they had no ...

Orthodox and Coming Out…As an Ally

In January 2012, Keshet’s Director of Special Projects, Gregg Drinkwater, addressed audiences at Limmud Colorado, a conference dedicated to advancing ...

Welcome to the Keshet Blog!

We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re finally coming out…with a blog. We know we’re a decade or so behind schedule, ...

Sleeping on Felix Frankfurter’s Couch

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...