Tonight is the start of Tisha B’av, which represents a central day of mourning for Jews around the world. It marks not only our mourning for the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE, but also the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the final crushing of…
View the originalSunday, July 16 was International Drag Day, a day that celebrates the playfulness and bold creativity of this performance art. For many, drag provides moments of levity and deep belonging as communities grow up around performers and venues. Today, however, drag is under attack, as some congresspeople spread dangerous rhetoric…
View the originalLeading up to Pride Month this year, Keshet received so many requests for our staff to speak at synagogues, JCCs, day schools, Jewish federations, and other community organizations — so many that soon our staff were all fully booked — an excellent problem to have! In a time of continued escalating attacks…
View the originalYesterday marked Independence Day, a day dedicated to the United States Independence as a nation and the freedom for all of its citizens. Yet we know that celebrating freedom on the 4th of July has always come with an asterisk: freedom, initially, only for white men, and today, even though…
View the originalPride month exists as a duality: it is both a month of celebration, joy, and pride and also a month of anger and grief. Pride commemorates the Stonewall riots, one of the foundations for the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and is a time for us to reflect on our history of…
View the originalFour years ago, I stood outside of Stonewall, the place where the movement for LGBTQ+ rights was ignited, and said to my best friend, “Promise me in fifty years, wherever we are, we’ll come back for the 100th anniversary.” Growing up queer in New York, Greenwich Village was one of…
View the originalנחל (nachal): river נחלה (nachala): inheritance There is no beginning to this story. We begin midstream. We begin in a gush of water from our mother’s bodies. In our first moist breath. It is rain that gathers there and begins to flow. It is the snow that fell in drifts…
View the originalAs attacks proliferate against our community, Keshet is expanding to meet the need. We are excited to welcome two new staff members, both based in Texas: Rachel Gollay, Southwest Community Mobilization Manager, and Kachel Kohnhorst, Southwest Education & Training Manager. Our Southwest team is already hard at work strengthening our…
View the originalJuneteenth was never something taught to me in school. I instead learned that one day slavery was abolished and that was the end of it. It was treated unceremoniously, as if the collective consciousness of our nation simply changed and enslaved Black Americans became free. The first time I ever…
View the originalTHANK YOU to those who took bold action over the past few dangerous and demanding months to share your Jewish values with your legislators, values that urge that ALL people, regardless of sexual orientation, gender, or any other identity, be treated with dignity by the people elected to serve them.…
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