Transgender Day of Remembrance
A Call to Action After Trans Day of Remembrance
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), memorializes trans individuals who have died because of anti-transgender discrimination and victimization. It occurs annually on ...
Leaving My Ultra-Orthodox Home and Finding My Trans Self: Part Two
Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...
Leaving My Ultra-Orthodox Home and Finding My Trans Self: Part One
Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...
Fighting To Be Invisible
I often wonder what my life would look like were I a few years younger. Given how quickly the world ...
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 ...
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. ...
Our Ten Most Popular Posts of 2014
With the first month of 2015 behind us, we thought we’d share our most popular blog posts of the past ...
Why I’m Passionate about Transgender Justice
If you’re in Boston, please join us for Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 23rd at 2:30pm in John F Kennedy Park. After, we ...
Why Jews Need Transgender Day of Remembrance
In honor of the annual observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance we are devoting space in our blog to posts about gender, such ...
Transgender Day of Remembrance and the Life of Sarah
This d’var Torah was given by Rabbi Becky Silverstein at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center on Friday, November 14th. We ...