Keshet goes from local org to national force
Grassroots organization promotes GLBT inclusion within Jewish community.
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Grassroots organization promotes GLBT inclusion within Jewish community.
View the original at The Jewish Advocate
Back in 2005 Keshet was a small Jamaica Plain-based organization focused on advocating for LGBT inclusion within the Jewish community in the Boston area; its executive director, Idit Klein, was the organization’s lone full time employee. That year Keshet, working with director Irena Fayngold, released a documentary film, Hineini, chronicling the experience of a girl coming out as a lesbian at a Jewish school in Waltham and trying to organize a gay/straight alliance.
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Barbara and Alan Sidman of Salem are the proud parents of a gay son who lives in New York. They hope some day that Michael will return to the North Shore and make it his home, but they believe that the chances are slim. One of the problems, in their opinion, is that the North Shore Jewish community is not particularly welcoming to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) singles and families.
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