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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 ...
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 2
Shelly Weiss, an iconic self-defined queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, is the subject of this ...
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss
Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...
Back to School: Supporting your Transgender Child
New schools, classmates, and teachers can cause anxiety as the school year is getting ready to start. As parents, we ...
Back to School: Help Bring Social Justice & LGBTQ Equality to the Classroom
September is just around the corner, which means a new academic year is approaching. But schools aren’t always the ideal ...
Mourning & Action
Our hearts are heavy.This past Thursday evening marked the onset of Tu B’Av, the traditional Jewish holiday celebrating love. Yet ...
Reflections from a Former Matchmaker
Tu B’Av was once a day when unwed women of Jerusalem dressed in white and congregated in local vineyards to ...
Tu B’Av and (Self) Love
Tu B’Av may be considered a minor Jewish holiday, but it feels especially appropriate to recognize in light of the ...