Check out recent articles about Keshet's work, our press statements, and key articles about LGBTQ+ Jews.
The month of June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, originally designed to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, which were a major turning point for LGBT issues in the United States.
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Activists make last-minute push to lobby Republican lawmakers ahead of Friday's vote on landmark LGBTQ rights bill
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CBST conference — ‘a holy gathering’ — marks new sense of belonging.
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The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony stretches to accommodate the new gender fluidity.
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Following the protest at the 2019 annual LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change conference, Keshet made the following statement.
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As Becca Israel undergoes rigorous screening to qualify for a second-parent adoption of her newborn son, she seeks to raise awareness of lingering inequalities in the law.
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This fall, the Teen Initiative launched its first micro-grant request for proposals titled the “Experiment in Engagement Challenge.” The grant summoned organizations to disrupt the current landscape with fresh and innovative ideas to expand their reach to teens who are marginally involved in Jewish life.
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A local conference provided synagogues and agencies with resources to create a more inclusive environment for LGBTQ community members.
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Keshet has announced the names of three young Jewish LGBTQ leaders who are the recipients of the Hacham Lev Award.
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Get out the vote: It’s a biennial ritual for Jewish groups. But not for humans, for ideas — the state and local ballot initiatives that rarely get the level of attention that rock ’em sock ’em candidate battles do. This year is different, organizers are saying.
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For the last decade, Keshet has been working to make Jewish institutions safe and inclusive for their LGBTQ constituency. Next month, the Twin Cities gets its turn, as 16 organizations that are committing up to five staff members each to take part in the Keshet Leadership Project.
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Our Jewish textual tradition has always had a place for those who do not fit neatly into binary boxes of sex and gender.
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What Judaism has to say about inclusion, human dignity and equal rights.
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On Nov. 6, our trans friends, family members and neighbors are counting on us to uphold their rights at the ballot in Massachusetts.
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The Keshet Parent and Family Connection bolsters families during the coming-out process and beyond.
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“Keshet connected me to other teens who were Jewish and queer. Knowing people like me, who had similar experiences, made me feel like I had a place where I belong and could talk with someone. Being able to feel connected like this is amazing and really big for me.”
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The Jewish community came together to strategize on how to defeat a ballot initiative in November that takes away transgender people’s protection from discrimination in public spaces.
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It's Holocaust Remembrance Day but one-third of Americans doubt facts.
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When Esther Thorpe came out as gender neutral a year ago, identifying neither as male nor female, Miriam Taylor Thorpe was worried. Esther’s mother already had a child come out as gay and feared that Esther, 14, would have trouble finding a Jewish community that would be accepting and inclusive.
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