Trans Youth: Keshet Is on Your Side

 As a trans athlete, gender is the last thing I want to be thinking about when I’m on the field or out on a run. We deserve equal access to the formative experience sports have to offer all youth. – Keshet Youth Programs Participant  ____________ Today, with the West Virginia v.…

Reflections on Pride 2026

Ten Years Since the Pulse Nightclub Tragedy 

June 12, 2026 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub tragedy, where 49 LGBTQ+ people were murdered, and 58 others were wounded—simply for existing as their authentic selves. At the time, Pulse was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, and it changed the lives of LGBTQ+ people and…

The LGBTQ+ Origin Story of Debbie Friedman’s Mi Shebeirach

It’s Pride. It’s also a really hard time to be LGBTQ+ in the United States, and an especially challenging and often dangerous time to be trans. Regardless of whether or not you hold any of those identities, it’s a scary time to be a person in this country, period. What’s…

What Does It Mean to Truly Be Free?

We are currently in the midst of Passover, the Jewish holiday honoring, celebrating, and reflecting upon the Israelites’ escape from Egypt. The Israelites were enslaved under Pharoah, and only after G-d hardens Pharoah’s heart to the point of his and his army’s death do the Israelites make their way to…

Trans Visibility Is a Gift

By Ben Greene, Keshet Contract Trainer Eleven years ago as a trans kid in a small town, visibility was not an option. Both because I individually didn’t feel at all safe coming out, and because there was nowhere I could look to see other trans people. When I finally came…

Transgender Day of Visibility 2026

On this Transgender Day of Visibility, we at Keshet offer you rituals, wisdom, and celebration. And above all, art. Art that spotlights the diverse experiences, the multivocality of trans and nonbinary Jews. Art that shares our truths, our struggles, our joys. Art through which we can be fully seen. Art…

The Sacred Fire that Can Never Be Extinguished: Parashat Tzav 5786

Keshet community! I’m excited to share some Torah with you and I also want to give a content warning that I’m going to mention something that happened at a workshop that might sound jarring. I want to let you know up front I’ve been incredibly supported by staff at Keshet,…

What Queer Jews Have to Say about Kansas

A new law passed in Kansas is bad for transgender people, bad for the Jews, bad for all of us. Effective Thursday, February 26, the Kansas state government passed a law that invalidated the drivers licenses of transgender people in the state overnight and ordered them to surrender their IDs.…

We Cannot Abandon the Fight for Trans Rights in Kansas. Or in Indiana. Or Anywhere. 

I grew up in southern Indiana. When I moved to Chicago eight years ago, it was more out of preference and ease of access to the care I needed than feeling forced out. But today, I cannot legally move home without running up against my home state’s anti-trans laws which…