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.
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. ...
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. ...
Hineini: 10 Years of Coming Out in Jewish Spaces
A dozen or so years ago, I was working as an educator at a large Conservative synagogue in the suburbs ...
Coming Out to Grandma
I never thought of myself as the type to lie to my grandmother. She’s always been my biggest fan. When ...
Coming Out & Combining Names
After 11 years of marriage, my wife Kate and I are finally going to change our last names.I’m a little ...
Coming Out at Our JCC
My three-year-old loves her preschool. Now in her third year there, she has friends she is close to, teachers she ...
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 3
Part 3 in this series features Shelly Weiss, the queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, as ...