Keshet in the News

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Feb 2007 24

Gay Jews Connect Their Experience To Story of Purim

As a child, Idit Klein celebrated Purim by wearing homemade gowns and tiaras to play the beautiful Queen Esther. She fantasized about how she, like the heroine who bravely confessed her faith to save her fellow Jews in ancient Persia, could have somehow rescued her relatives from the Holocaust.

View the original at The Washington Post
Gay Jews Connect Their Experience To Story of Purim
Aug 2006 28

Review of Hineini: Coming Out in Jewish High School and Trembling Before G-d

The beginning of reconciliation for these two seemingly separate worlds is highlighted in the independent documentaries Trembling Before G-d and Hineini: Coming Out in Jewish High School. Both films tackle the inner conflict of Jews who desperately want to be openly LGBT and religious, without being shunned.

View the original at AfterEllen
Review of Hineini: Coming Out in Jewish High School and Trembling Before G-d