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In my childhood, there were few things that the Orthodox rabbis charged with my daily education and my secular anti-religious ...
Passover: Festival of Binaries
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.”
A Year of Fighting for Agunot
As I lay in bed, after talking to an international committee of organizations that advocate on behalf of agunot (Jewish ...
Making it Personal: How the JCRC Advocates for Trans Inclusion
Embedded in our communal and organizational DNA is the belief that all people come before the government with an equal ...
New SUPERGIRL Documentary Breaks Gender Norms, Lifts People’s Spirits
In January of 2013 I came across an article in the Jewish Daily Forward that read: “The strongest girl in ...
Adult Circumcision: Not Required
I have been working with a married couple towards conversion. They have completed their learning, their years of living Jewishly, ...
International Agunah Day: Taking Matters into Our Own Hands
The agunah problem has not gone away. Every so often it rears its ugly head and we witness yet another ...
Celebratory Sacrifices: Coming Out
In the times of the ancient Israelites, we were supposed to make sacrifices to God on many different occasions. When ...
Take a Stand: Don’t Let Religion Become a Weapon
In Pirkei Avot 2:10 we are taught that Rabbi Eliezer said, יהי כבוד חברך חביב עליך כשלך “Let your neighbor’s dignity be precious ...
Q&A with Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, the White House’s Primary LGBT Liaison
Keshet recently spoke with Raffi Freedman-Gurspan. Raffi, a Jewish woman, is the first openly transgender member of staff at the White House. ...
Celebrating Jewish Women This Women’s History Month
I’ll admit when I looked up at my calendar this week I loudly exclaimed “It’s already March! But what about ...
Remembering Liz Swados
Lesbian and Jewish theater icon Elizabeth Swados died in January at the age of 64. Swados was an American writer, composer, musician ...