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Cross-Dressing through the Ages (Beit Midrash) Submitted by JP Payne Short Summary of Event: A beit midrash (literally “house of study”) is a place for people to come together and engage with Jewish texts, from Torah, to Talmud, to the medieval sages, and up through modern voices. This event…
Read moreKeshet spoke with Rabbi Xava De Cordova (she/her) and Binya Kóatz (she/her), co-founders of Shel Maala, a digital-first queer Yeshiva founded in 2020 for Trans Day of Visibility. Keshet: Tell me about how Shel Maala came into being. Xava: I was very sick, independently of COVID, when the pandemic started.…
View the originalChief Communications Officerthey/them/theirs Jay is an artist, program manager, and clinician with a passion for creative learning and storytelling. Prior to joining Keshet, Jay worked in the mental health field as a clinical social worker, most recently as the Director of Community Services at the Brookline Center for Community Mental…
Read moreJay is an artist, program manager, and clinician with a passion for creative learning and storytelling. Prior to joining Keshet, Jay worked in the mental health field as a clinical social worker, most recently as the Director of Community Services at the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health where they…
Read moreDownload this resource as a PDF. Tisha B’Av is getting closer, and just like every year, I’m struggling to connect to this holiday. This day, the ninth day of the month of Av, is the date that Jewish tradition marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.…
Read moreNEW YORK – Matt Nosanchuk knows from pressure. As associate director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement, Nosanchuk represents President Obama to the Jewish community. Every fractious part of it. Sometimes, like while watching Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin light candles at last December’s White House Hanukkah party, his job is…
Read moreThis November, Massachusetts voters will be asked whether to repeal the state’s 2016 transgender anti-discrimination law. Enacted in July 2016 and signed by Gov. Charlie Baker, the law listed gender identity as one of the factors against which people cannot be discriminated in a public space. Voting on the law coincides…
Read more“Androgynos is in some manners equivalent to men and in some manners equivalent to women; in some manners equivalent to both men and women; and in some manners equivalent to neither men nor women.” (Mishnah Ze’raim, Bikkurim) I don’t know how many men have studied this text in yeshivah or…
Read moreAttendees at the “Trans Jews Are Here Convening” dance at Havdalah. Photos by Samantha Davis/Courtesy of CBST When Jillian Weiss first joined Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in 1998, she was one of the few transgender members of the LGBTQ synagogue. Late last month, she was one of over 100 transgender…
Read moreSurface Similarities Between Hanukkah and Christmas. December is a very complicated time for Jews. Hanukkah sometimes comes early, coinciding with Thanksgiving. Sometimes it is late, extending into the new secular year. Either way, it always lacks the trappings and pageantry of the holiday held on the 25th. For Jews, there…
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