Gender & Sexuality

On March 26, 2007, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the legal and spiritual center for Conservative Judaism in America, ...

Today’s post features more Jewish history from Kentucky, the most recent state completed in our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities.  When ...

“If it doesn’t bring more love into the world, it probably isn’t religion.” The date was October 13, 2010, and ...

As a rabbi who also happens to be a mother of small kids, I am often asked for creative ideas ...

The Torah is strewn with transgendered hearts. How can that be true? The Torah, as we know, is not written ...

Torah teaches that ancient Israelite women refused to donate their jewelry to build the Golden Calf. Instead they donated their ...

As we’ve explored in earlier posts by and about Orthodox Jews who are also LGBTQ (including a round-up of blogs, ...

We’ve been really inspired by the posts penned by some of the teens and staff who attended the LGBTQ Jewish ...

Nobody prepares you for those odd, out-of-the-way problems life presents every once in a while. I grapple with one such ...

Last Hanukkah my mother gave me a decorative wall hanging with the text of Asher Yatzar, also known as the ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

They invented the term 100% trans Jewcore, and as Schmekel they are rocking our world! Keshet caught up with the ...