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.
Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell
Welcome to our fifth installment of “Queer Clergy in Action,” spotlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rabbis and cantors. This ...
Parashat Re’eh: Observe That Which I Enjoin Upon You
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Pride and Pain in the Orthodox World
“There was a deep sense of comfort, of relief, of finally feeling like we could be ourselves.” “I was amazed ...
Parashat Ekev: Taking Steps
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...
Wrapping Myself in the Fringes
This was the d’var Torah (discourse) I gave at the Jewish service on Friday night at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, ...
Parashat Vaetchanan: A Less Innocent Love
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Queer Jewish Dating
What does it mean to be Jewish and queer? What about dating queer and Jewish? Does it make a difference? ...
What I Wish I Had Known at 13
When the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would decide on the legality of California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense ...
Parashat Devarim: Out from the Mountain: Finding the Good Land
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...
Queer, Trans*, and In Israel
Living in Israel, for me, meant mastering the art of feigning ignorance. “Ani lo mevin, ani lo mevin. Rak midaber ...