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A Life Cut Short: Remembering May Peleg-Friedman

May Peleg-Friedman, the Jerusalem Open House’s first trans chairperson and former owner of Jerusalem’s only queer nightclub “Mikveh” took her ...

Reform and Transgender & Non-Gender Conforming Jews

The history of transgender and non-gender conforming people in the Reform Movement goes back further than we might initially realize. ...

Finding Community, Finding a Role Model

Throughout the month, in partnership with RAVSAK, Keshet is celebrating 10 years of Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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