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In the mid-1980s, Susannah Heschel and feminist Jewish college students put an orange on their seder plate as a symbol of inclusion of gay and lesbian Jews. They were building…
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Holiday: Pesach Liberation and Transgender Jews by Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen Thursday April 13, 2006 15 Nisan, 5766 Exodus 12:21-51, Passover We prepare for the holiday of Passover in…
This one-page Haggadah insert is adapted from Mah Nishtana – A GLBTQ + Ally Haggadah, written in 2005. By Anonymous, Micah Buck, Kerry Chaplin, Makella Craelius, Elianna Goldstein, Rabbi Avi…
Background Adding new rituals and texts to the Passover Seder is a way to connect this ancient holiday of the liberation to contemporary struggles for freedom. As we say each…
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Someone from my shul recently asked me where I felt like I truly belonged, and I realized I had never felt that way at our shul. The first time I ever truly felt like I truly belonged was at the Keshet Shabbaton for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. I get teary-eyed just remembering Friday night. After we lit the candles, someone started spontaneously singing shalom aleichem, and we all joined in together as a group. I got chills. It’s sometimes hard to reconcile the parts of myself that I see as conflicting, but at the Shabbaton, I was just mind-blown. We were all existing together in that space without having to explain our existence or presence. It was pure, unfiltered joy.
Emet Marwell, Keshet Neshamot/Rainbow Souls Shabbaton Participant, Massachusetts