Gender & Sexuality

My 10-year-old son, Micah, came home from school earlier this week humming a familiar tune. “The Place Where I Belong” by ...

I moved to North Carolina about eight months ago after living most of my life either above or well above ...

Last month, 76 teenagers, 9 college-aged CITs, and 18 adult educators from across the country joined together for our largest ...

Sometimes, being Southern and Jewish means raising our voice. The Board of Directors of the Institute of Southern Jewish Life ...

Keshet recently sat down with Emma Canter, a 15 year-old from Chicago. Emma runs the Instagram account f.em.inist and recently ...

Passover is also a time for us to reflect on the mitzrayim we face today: what are the narrow places from which we must emerge? What are the ways in which we must move toward freedom from transphobia and heterosexism in our families, our workplaces, our Jewish communities? What steps do we need to take to bring us farther along on this journey?

In my childhood, there were few things that the Orthodox rabbis charged with my daily education and my secular anti-religious ...

Leavened versus unleavened; inside versus outside; Jew versus non-Jew; life versus death. Passover is a festival of absolute binary distinctions that we ritually link together in order to affirm our identity as the people God brought out of Egypt and to pass that identity on to our children. This is the Torah's equivalent of “Jewish Identity for Dummies.”

Embedded in our communal and organizational DNA is the belief that all people come before the government with an equal ...

In January of 2013 I came across an article in the Jewish Daily Forward that read: “The strongest girl in ...

In the times of the ancient Israelites, we were supposed to make sacrifices to God on many different occasions. When ...

Keshet recently spoke with Raffi Freedman-Gurspan. Raffi, a Jewish woman, is the first openly transgender member of staff at the White House. ...