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Parashat Vayishlach Wrestling Till Dawn by Joy Ladin on Friday December 04, 2009 17 Kislev 5770 Genesis 32:4 – 36:43 Tradition tells us that the Torah is not simply the story of our ancestors, that its narratives mirror and prefigure our own lives. For me, that’s certainly true of this…
Read moreAt a recent community interfaith workshop for family members, I listened to a woman ask in a very open, heartfelt manner for advice about her relationship with her youngest daughter, married to a non-Jewish man, who had recently given birth to her first child. Her daughter was not planning to…
Read moreI am sometimes asked: “How can you be gay and Jewish? Doesn’t the Bible forbid homosexuality?” Here is my attempt at an answer. At the outset, I am only answering this question as part of a subset of a subset of Jews: religious Jews who feel themselves bound or in…
Read moreThe body is nothing more than a garment. When they are naming souls in the upper world and they call out “So-and-So, the daughter of Such-and-Such,” no body yet exists, not even in the womb. Not only that—what about the couplings in Heaven? The books of the kabbalah are full…
Read moreLGBTQ-Inclusive Book List for Children and Families KESHET RESOURCES THE PURIM SUPERHERO Nate has a Purim dilemma. He loves aliens and really wants to wear an alien costume for Purim, but his friends are all dressing as superheroes and he wants to fit in. What will he do? With the…
Read moreAs part of my rabbinical studies my mentor Reb Daniel Siegel asked me to compose a kidushin ve’nisuin, a wedding, for same-sex couples grounded in the Halakha. For most of my life I was angry towards the Halakha, the Jewish law, as it was presented to me in Israel, where…
Read moreBackground 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 year at the Seder, “In every generation, we are commanded to view ourselves as if each one of us was…
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