I was one of those kids who spent their most formative summers at my Jewish summer camp. This past June, I returned to the summer camp of my childhood to facilitate staff week training sessions. These staffers are the ones who make the magic of summer camp real for the…
View the originalIn honor of Tu B’Av today, the Jewish holiday of love, I am happy to share with you this video message from Jon Cohen, Keshet’s Director Of Community Mobilization. This Tu B’Av and every day of the year, Jon and his team make sure that love animates everything we do. Sometimes, in the struggle for justice and dignity,…
View the originalKeshet is made up of a team of dedicated, smart, and fun individuals. Every month, we’re sitting down with one person so that you get to know them a little better! This month, we spoke with Keshet’s Associate Director of Education and Training, Rabbi Lonnie Kleinman. Here’s what they had…
View the originalTonight is the start of Tisha B’av, which represents a central day of mourning for Jews around the world. It marks not only our mourning for the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE, but also the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the final crushing of…
View the originalSunday, July 16 was International Drag Day, a day that celebrates the playfulness and bold creativity of this performance art. For many, drag provides moments of levity and deep belonging as communities grow up around performers and venues. Today, however, drag is under attack, as some congresspeople spread dangerous rhetoric…
View the originalLeading up to Pride Month this year, Keshet received so many requests for our staff to speak at synagogues, JCCs, day schools, Jewish federations, and other community organizations — so many that soon our staff were all fully booked — an excellent problem to have! In a time of continued escalating attacks…
View the originalYesterday marked Independence Day, a day dedicated to the United States Independence as a nation and the freedom for all of its citizens. Yet we know that celebrating freedom on the 4th of July has always come with an asterisk: freedom, initially, only for white men, and today, even though…
View the originalPride month exists as a duality: it is both a month of celebration, joy, and pride and also a month of anger and grief. Pride commemorates the Stonewall riots, one of the foundations for the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and is a time for us to reflect on our history of…
View the originalFour years ago, I stood outside of Stonewall, the place where the movement for LGBTQ+ rights was ignited, and said to my best friend, “Promise me in fifty years, wherever we are, we’ll come back for the 100th anniversary.” Growing up queer in New York, Greenwich Village was one of…
View the originalנחל (nachal): river נחלה (nachala): inheritance There is no beginning to this story. We begin midstream. We begin in a gush of water from our mother’s bodies. In our first moist breath. It is rain that gathers there and begins to flow. It is the snow that fell in drifts…
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