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…
View the originalWe 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…
View the originalBy 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…
View the originalOn 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…
View the originalKeshet 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,…
View the originalA 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.…
View the originalI 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…
View the originalWell, it’s Purim again. And right on cue, things are most certainly upside down. Again. Still. It’s hard to believe that it has already been six months since I stepped into the role of Chief Executive Dog, following the extraordinary tenure of our founding Chief Executive Dog, Langston Namerow-Klein, whose…
View the originalThe final chapter of Megillat Esther can be summed up as, “The cogs of empire continue on.” After all is said and done—the decree to exterminate the Jews is overturned, the Jews are able to successfully defend themselves against the people who sought their extermination—we read that the Persian emperor…
View the originalAs a high school student in Florida, I spent much of my time challenging administrators and founding my school’s Gay Straight Alliance. Safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students and allies were few and far between then, and they are far from guaranteed now. Yet many Jewish institutions across the country have…
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