Why We Need to Show Up for Trans Youth in Colorado…and Everywhere Else

As a Denver resident, I joke that I live in a bubble when it comes to protecting LGBTQ+ rights, especially for trans youth. Even so, I eagerly volunteered for Keshet’s recent Text Bank Tuesday session, which focused on anti-trans ballot measures in Colorado. Keshet made it easy and accessible, with…

Breishit Reflections from Keshet’s New Greater Boston Education & Training Manager

In the beginning… We read those words this Shabbat in Parashat Bresheit, inviting us into G-d’s creation. Inviting us to separate the darkness from the light, the heavens from the earth. How fitting, I thought, that this is the week I start creating with Keshet, joining the team as Greater…

Reluctant Prophets: Reading the Book of Jonah as a Queer Jew of Color

On Yom Kippur, it is customary to hear the Book of Jonah chanted as the haftarah for the afternoon service. In the book, the eponymous Jonah is tasked by G-d to deliver a prophecy to the people of the city of Nineveh: they are behaving wickedly, and if they do…

We Are Surviving. We Are Persisting. We Are Arriving. We Are Here.

Queer highschoolers holding hands in the hallway, the entire universe between their palms. Linked hands forming a human chain at Stonewall in 1969, tidal waves of change crashing around them. Lesbians holding the hands of countless gay men at their hospital bedsides, filling in for mothers and fathers who refused…

Zichrono Livracha Tim Curry 

When Tim Curry stepped onto my television screen in a backward corset and platform heels, my entire worldview changed. With thick makeup and charisma that I could feel all the way through the years and screens, Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show was a transformative character…

Parshat Ki Teitzei: What a Lost Ox Has to Do with Trans Rights 

You must fulfill what has crossed your lips and perform what you have voluntarily vowed to the Eternal Your God, having made the promise with your own mouth. – Devarim 23:24 This time last year I wrote a letter offering loving feedback to cisgender allies to be louder in support…

Celebrating Disability Pride with Ari Fernandez: A Keshet Conversation

July is Disability Pride Month, commemorating the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990. This Disability Pride Month, we celebrate the diversity, resilience, and lived experiences that strengthen our Jewish community. We had the privilege of sitting down with Ari Fernandez (they/them), Founder & Executive Director of Olam Shelanu, an…

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…