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Marking One Year of Heartbreak

A year ago today, my family and I were together with close friends in the Adirondack Mountains. As both families are Israeli-Americans with many family members and friends in Israel, our phones began to ping early that morning. The four adults talked quietly in the kitchen, not wanting to scare…

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Meet Rabbi Micah Buck!

Rabbi Micah Buck, Keshet’s Director of Education & Training, is optimistic, driven, and does their work through the lenses of both their Jewish and LGBTQ+ identities. Micah brings positivity and growth through his work and uses his creativity in cooking and baking to do the same, putting love into every…

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Q&A with Sage Cassell-Rosenberg

This blog post was originally published by Jews of Color Initiative. Your story deserves to be told! With support from the Jews of Color Initiative, Keshet invites LGBTQ+ Jews of Color to share your experiences navigating Jewish spaces and life at the intersection of being LGBTQ+, Jewish, and People of…

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“I think I’m the only one who feels like this.”

This blog post was originally published in Jewish& by Be’chol Lashon Growing up Black, Jewish, and queer, tethered to the very being of me. I carried the belief of being utterly alone in my experiences into every space I entered. I constantly felt that who I was was simply “too…

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Meet Lenny Goldstein!

Keshet intern, Nuriel Gutman, recently sat down for an interview with Lenny Goldstein—avid cyclist, ambivalent spreadsheet expert, and, most notably, Keshet’s Chief Financial Officer since 2017.  What inspired you to work at Keshet?  Unfortunately, Keshet didn’t exist when I was young. I came of age as a gay man at…

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