Check out recent articles about Keshet's work, our press statements, and key articles about LGBTQ+ Jews.
Unlike some young adults, I am not cynical about the role of federations in Jewish communal life. I believe federations serve a vital purpose for local communities and for the Jewish people worldwide. My own organization, Keshet, has received funding from CJP, the Jewish Federation of Greater Boston, for over ten years.
View the original at The Jerusalem Report / The Jerusalem Post
All of us, trans and ally alike, deserve to thrive; to bring our fullest, most vibrant versions of ourselves into the world. Transphobia, the fear or hatred of trans and gender variant people, makes that impossible for many trans people— sometimes by cutting words, cold shoulders, exclusion, discrimination and sometimes by violence.
View the original at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
In the meantime, I would like to share some thoughts about Trans Day of Remembrance which takes place in hundreds of locations around the globe on or around November 20 each year (details on the Colorado observance below).
View the original at Boulder Jewish News
Helping folks locate themselves in Jewish tradition, religion, history, to help them understand why Jewish existence and identity might be relevant and even valuable, especially when Jewish education seldom mirrors the realities of Jewish life, namely, issues as complicated as gender and sexuality. It’s difficult to do that work, and it is even more difficult to do it well, but this year, let’s not let ourselves off the hook.
View the original at JewishJournal.com
Keshet, an organization that works for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews in Jewish life, has issued its first three “Jewish LGBT Change Makers” posters through its Hineini Education Project. When I took a look at them online, I was immediately reminded of the Jewish Women’s Archive’s “History Makers” (formerly “Women of Valor”) posters. The similarity is both good and bad.
View the original at The Jewish Daily Forward / The Sisterhood
This week, I had the chance to speak with Klein about Keshet’s history, future and everything in between.
View the original at Let My People Grow
“I came across a book called Torah Queeries and I spent some time a couple of summers ago at a week-long institute where I took a course where that book was the subject of the conversations and study. I found it so compelling, interesting and engrossing that I decided it could be a focus for LGBT Jews who wanted to further integrate their queer and Jewish identities. And the Pride Center seemed like a really good place to do that,” said David Rogoff.
View the original at Out IN Jersey .net
On Tuesday evening we witnessed an amazing display of empowered youth at Tel Yehudah – the national leadership camp of Young Judaea. This was not a staff sponsored or staff run event.
View the original at Camp Tel Yehudah
San Francisco’s Jewish LGBT community is filled with pride this year as it appears that the city by the Bay is emerging as a hub of LGBT Jewish leadership nationally and internationally.
View the original at The Bay Area Reporter
When Sasha Goldberg thinks back to coming out at 14, she recalls the things that made the process easier than it could have been.
View the original at jweekly.com
LGBT civil rights advocate and founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation Stuart Milk and Jewish and LGBT community leader Patty Jacobson were honored by Keshet on March 12 at the Keshet Cabaret, held at The Center for Arts at the Armory (191 Highland Ave., Somerville) from 7 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
View the original at Bay Windows
About 50 people attended a screening of “Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School” and panel discussion last week at the YJCC in Washington Township.
View the original at New Jersey Jewish Standard
As my title suggests, I’m Jewish and queer. Well, more specifically, I’m a trans-masculine, gender queer, queer community organizer. I’m also a Midwestern, Ashkenazi Jew who was raised in a reform, Zionist household. Without going into everything, it’s fair to say I often haven’t felt comfortable bringing my multi-layered self to these communities. Yet while these communities have been uncomfortable, I’ve also continued to stay at least marginally engaged in these spaces.
View the original at Punk Torah
Years ago, long before I had really thought about having children of my own, I began collecting children’s books. Not just the ones that had been my own favorites—Where the Wild Things Are, Corduroy and the All-of-a-Kind Family series—but also the new ones that cleverly and entertainingly subverted the dominant heterosexist paradigm.
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After the publication of my article about three Jewish youth movements standing up against bullying, Alicia Zimbalist, public relations manager for the Foundation for Jewish Camp, notified me that her organization had joined the cause as well.
View the original at examiner.com
Shulamit Izen wanted to connect her identity as a lesbian and her identity as a proud Jew. The result was a film chronicling her struggle.
View the original at New Jersey Jewish Standard
The Jewish community is rallying behind a pledge to end homophobic bullying and harassment.
View the original at JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People
With support from Keshet, a national grassroots organization dedicated to the full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews in Jewish life, Mayyim Hayyim trained its staff and mikveh guides to be sensitive to the needs and concerns of GLBT Jews.
View the original at Mayyim Hayyim
Keshet created the “Seven Jewish Values: Guidelines for Inclusive Community” poster as a simple way to connect core Jewish values to our efforts to foster GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) inclusion in the Jewish community.
View the original at Schusterman Family Foundation: Our Blog
What I loved most about this encounter with the BBYO kids was that it was self-evident to them that they were there because they are Jews and to be a Jew means to stand for justice, including justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
View the original at Tikkun Magazine
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