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.
The Burden of Coming Out
In honor of National Coming Out Day, Keshet will be sharing and celebrating coming out stories throughout the month of October. ...
Pride on Yom Kippur? These Nice Jewish Girls Say ‘No Way’
It was a small miracle when the Northern Virginia Pride (NOVA) committee scheduled its first pride after three years of planning and ...
Ringing in the New Year as a Community
My niece just started Hebrew School. As someone who didn’t have a formal Jewish education as a kid, I’m pretty ...
Steps for Making Your Synagogue LGBTQ Inclusive: Preparing for Rosh Hashanah
With the High Holidays right around the corner, now is a great time to be thinking about the message your ...
Kol Yisrael Aravim Zeh Bazeh: All Israel Is Responsible for One Another
One of my family’s favorite Sarah Silverman routines plays on the Jewish habit of always claiming one of our own: ...
Beyond the Binary: Gender Fluidity
Curious about gender? Check out this program the Chicago branch of the Keshet Parent & Family Connection is running on gender ...
12 Months of Inclusion – 1 Month at a Time
Want to make your organization more inclusive? Take a look at the images you include in your materials- are you representing ...
Federations Get Serious About LGBTQ Inclusion
This summer the UJA-Federation of New York hosted a Community Conversation on LGBTQ Engagement, a conference convened to discuss ideas of LGBTQ ...
Is Your Hillel Inclusive?
As students return to college campuses, now is a great time to be thinking about how LGBTQ inclusive your Hillel ...
A Conversation on Being Champions of Memory
Last week our Boston community sat down for a conversation with Ayala Katz, mother of one of the victims of the ...