Keshet in the News

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Feb 2013 26

Linktastic Linkathon

Hello fabulous readers! You’re looking especially well-rested today, and what you’ve done with your tentacles is just absolutely divine.

View the original at Queer Dads Blog
Linktastic Linkathon
Feb 2013 22

Coming Out for Purim

The Purim Superhero, a new picture book for Jewish children, includes gay parents. It’s about time.

View the original at Tablet
Coming Out for Purim
Feb 2013 21

New Children’s Book Shows Gay Family within Jewish Tradition

It is a truism in the LGBT community to say that we need LGBT-inclusive children’s books so our kids see images of families like theirs. Yet with few exceptions, LGBT-inclusive picture books have largely shown culturally and religiously neutral families. Diversity of color has started to appear, but even those books don’t explore the families’ various cultural and religious traditions. Kids may therefore see some important aspects of their families in these books, but others are left out. Elisabeth Kushner’s The Purim Superhero, the first clearly LGBT-inclusive Jewish children’s book in English, takes a different approach.

View the original at Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms
New Children’s Book Shows Gay Family within Jewish Tradition