Clergy and spiritual leaders, both LGBTQ+ and not, have a unique role in building and sustaining LGBTQ+ affirming communities, celebrating life-cycle moments and sacred time with LGBTQ+ community members, offering sensitive and relevant spiritual care, and framing Jewish conversations for LGBTQ+ rights. This document attempts to compile some of the most-commonly-requested resources for clergy to rely on as they lead, teach, care, and celebrate. We hope that you will find these to be of help in your sacred work, and that you will treat each resource as a starting point or set of tools, bringing them together with your learning, ethical impulse, and most importantly, the deep truths and specific needs of your communities and the people who make them up.

Basic Information

• Who is the LGBTQ+ Community? Terms and Concepts
• Threads of Identity: LGBTQ+ Jews of Color in the Fabric of Jewish Life
• Views on LGBTQ Rights in All 50 States: Findings from PRRI’s 2023 American Values Atlas 
• The Trevor Project’s 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People
• 2022 US Trans Survey (this survey is run every 5-10 years)

Jewish Ritual and Lifecycles

• Shaar Zahav Siddur
• Tefillat Trans: Blessings and Rituals for Trans Lives
• Ritualwell Blessings For Gender and Sexual Identity
• Celebrating the Age of Mitzvah: A Guide for all Genders
• Nonbinary Hebrew Project
• Gender-Inclusive Aliyah Cards 
• Towards a Gender-Inclusive Hevra Kadisha
• Queering Jewish End of Life Planning

Holidays

• Pride Month 
• Pride Shabbat Planning Guide and Trans Pride Shabbat Planning Guide
• Jewish Perspectives on Transgender Day of Visibility
• Simanim / Ye’i Rasones for Rosh Hashanah
• Ushpizin/ata: Our LGBTQ+ Jewish Ancestors
• Joyous Purim: Simple Actions for LGBTQ+ Belonging

Halakhah and Movement Documents

• The Trans Halakhah Project’s Collection of Teshuvot
• Resources from The Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative Movement)
• LGBTQ Rights And Position of the Reform Movement
• Collection of Ritual, Writing, and Activism resources from Reconstructing Judaism
• Eshel’s Collection of Resources For Orthodox LGBTQ+ Jews

Spiritual Care

• Mazal Tov and Welcome: You Are A Blessing
• Beyond the Checklist: Using the “4 I’s” Framework for LGBTQ+ Belonging in Jewish Communities

Practical Needs

• 10 Things You can Do NOW For Trans Allyship
• Services and Resources for Trans People and Their Families

Values, Communication, and Communal Life

• Towards A Trans-Inclusive Feminism In Our Jewish Communities
• Invite the Whole Person: Representation vs Tokenism
• 7 Jewish Values for Inclusive Community
• Printables: Signs and Stickers
• All-Gender Restroom Signs
• Crafting Jewish Statements Affirming the Dignity of Transgender and Nonbinary People

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