Resources for LGBTQ Jews of Color

Essays, rituals, art, profiles, and more – all by and about LGBTQ Jews of Color.

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Photo © Mark Katzman KB is an audiologist, musician, co-convener of the Tzedek Lab, a Reconstructionist Rabbinical student, and a queer, trans Jew. A collaborative and spiritual leader, KB travels…

Michael is Jewish, Black, and gay, and this “makes my soul’s recipe unique and powerful.” The award-winning author of 2018’s The Cooking Gene, Michael gave a popular TED talk, wrote the viral Open…

Rabbi Sandra is a veteran, a vegan, a weightlifter, and one of the first queer women rabbis of color. As Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life at Elon University, Sandra explores…

Since the start of the pandemic, I have often felt a sense of uncertainty about time. I felt unsure of how the days, months, and now years progressed when the…

Typically, Black History Month focuses on the past and how far we’ve come as a community: learning about monumental Black historical figures, Carter G. Woodson and the creation of Black…

I’ve got to get something off my chest. Perhaps it’s a hot take. Perhaps we’ve all been thinking it and no one has said anything, but it’s a new year…

Content Note: Discusses anti-LGBTQ bullying and suicide. “They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.” Very recently I learned who originally said this quote. It was…

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It cannot be a mere coincidence that Martin Luther King Jr. was born just two weeks before we observed Tu Bishvat in 5689, on January 15, 1929. This year, we…

I have been out as transgender for the last two years. The first year was incredibly difficult: despite living in an incredibly accepting household and community, I struggled with a…

  “Al tifrosh min hatsibur” translates to “Do not separate yourself from the community,” from which I derive a commandment to be and act in solidarity with one’s community. Standing…

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I felt the largest connection to Judaism I have ever experienced and my hatred for myself transformed into an overwhelming sense of pride. That weekend changed my life for the better.

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