LGBTQ Holidays & Observances

True feminist liberation requires dismantling all systems of oppression, including those that police gender identity and expression.

Attacks on trans athletes harm all of us. Learn what your community can do to avoid this harm.

Get in all the moods with this Pride-filled playlist of queer Jewish artists!

Print this sign to make it clear that your congregation, institution, or home is a place where trans Jews belong.

Use this resource to plan a Trans Pride Shabbat with your organization!

Use this resource to plan a Trans Pride Shabbat with your people!

Created by Hillel International and Keshet

Keshet intern Nuriel Gutman shares why these two holy days have more in common than you might think.

Here are Keshet's responses to the challenging questions arising in this painful time. We hope these can help you navigate all of the complexity.

Use this guide to plan your own Pride Shabbat celebration, whether at your synagogue or in your living room.

In honor of National Coming Out Day, learn from Aviva Davis about coming out to her trusted group of elders.

Finding Keshet for the first time? Just came out? Finally bringing together your Jewish and LGBTQ+ selves? We are so glad you are here.

Please enjoy our 2021 Keshet staff picks for Pride!

Learn how to make rainbow Challah and recite the corresponding blessing.

As educators for LGBTQ+ equality and belonging, we hear a lot about allyship. We want to share some core definitions and tools with you to support your work in actively strengthening and building LGBTQ+ affirming communities where every individual can be seen and valued.

Suggestions, themes, and resources for clergy planning to give a sermon about or related to Pride Month.

Thank you for joining for the 2021 Community Pride Seder. Keshet works for LGBTQ Inclusion in Jewish life nationally and we are here to provide you with a tool kit that you can use for the entirety of this Seder and other LGBTQ programs through Pride and to use in your day-to-day life to be more inclusive and equitable for all LGBTQ+ people in your community.

Congregation Sha’ar Zahav's 16th Annual Pride Seder Pride Haggadah. June 2021

Celebrate the Jewish holidays and important LGBTQ+ dates!

Trans Day of Visibility is a time to celebrate the trans people in our communities. For our TDOV panel, get to know some of the Keshet family. We’ll share our experiences, the importance of visibility and joy, and our hopes for the future.

Many Jews light a yahrzeit candle in memory of those we have lost. In partnership with Cong. Beit Simchat Torah, Keshet is offering this printable sticker to help us mark Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Share these Trans Remembrance Shabbat prayers and poems with your community.

Prayer in English by Rabbi Reuben Zellman on the occasion of Transgender Day of Remembrance.

A sermon for Transgender Day of Remembrance.

A text to be used for Transgender Day of Remembrance.

This piece from 2009 describes the origin of Transgender Day of Remembrance and how it can be observed in Jewish communities.

A lesson plan for the film Hineini that teaches camp staff on how to think critically about the culture of camp as it relates to LGBTQ inclusion.

This downloadable guide contains readings, personal stories, quotes, and concrete action steps to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance.

A complete Pride Shabbat service.

Texts to read during a coming out ceremony or on National Coming Out Day.

LGBTQ+ Jews have always been here, will always be here, and can never be erased. Indeed, perhaps this is the moment of collective action we were made for.

Learn how you can create a meaningful dialogue about Pride this year.

This drash was presented at the Chicago Pride Havdalah in 2021. It discusses liminal spaces - the in-betweenness of Shabbat and the week, the tensions of forming community virtually, and the ongoing work for LGBTQ belonging.

Learn about the history of the Pride Flag with Keshet's Bay Area Education and Training Manager Randi Reed!

Jewish resources for World AIDS day, which has been marked on December 1st each year since 1988. This is a day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS epidemic, and a day of mourning for those who we have lost.

Keshet has created a collection of fun LGBTQ+ Jewish Pride signs! Download and print your favorites!

This Torah Queery makes a connection between the ritual cow slaughter with LGBTQ Pride celebrations.

A Torah Queery that connects the Israelites struggle for freedom with LGBTQ people's coming out experience.

A workshop that explores the origins of LGBTQ Pride month through a Jewish lens.

This Torah Queery highlights a practice of reciting Hallel on Pride.