Keshet
Keshet is a national organization that works for LGBTQ equality in Jewish life. The organization equips Jewish leaders with tools to build LGBTQ-affirming communities, creates spaces for queer Jewish teens to feel valued and develop their own leadership skills, and mobilizes the Jewish community to fight for LGBTQ justice. Keshet’s blog spotlights this work, as well as the voices of LGBTQ Jews, our families, and allies.
Pronouns as a Jewish Value
Preferred Gender Pronouns: a phrase that confuses people who haven’t heard it before. To many, pronouns seem fixed. How could ...
A Queer Jew Looks Back on High School (and the Search for Role Models)
The very first person I came out to as a lesbian just introduced himself as a proud transman for the ...
Queer at a Jewish Boarding School in North Carolina
My journey of figuring out my sexual orientation began when I was 12 years old and living in a suburb of ...
Meet Lesléa Newman: Lesbian, Jewish, Writer
As part of Keshet’s partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, we are raising up the profiles and voices of queer ...
After Creating Change: Standing in Solidarity
This past weekend, the National LGBTQ Task Force convened its annual Creating Change Conference. Founded in 1998, the Task Force’s ...
Personal/History: Teaching the Next Generation about the AIDS Crisis
I spent the evening of November 3rd weeping. I’d been teaching Tony Kushner’s Angels in America to my high school ...
Queer Jews of Color: We Belong
It is powerful to see yourself reflected in history, in a story, or even in a room. That power is ...
An Interview with Luzer Twersky: From Ultra-Orthodox to “Transparent” Star
Luzer Twersky is an actor who plays Mendel in Season Two of Amazon’s hit television show “Transparent.” He grew up ...
Remembering on World AIDS Day
The AIDS epidemic began slowly, but one by one, members of our synagogue, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, as well as many ...
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 ...