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Working with a couple towards their chuppah is an opportunity to celebrate their relationship and affirm their role as full members of their Jewish community and the Jewish world at large. This is our chance as rabbis to communicate how welcome the couple is and that it is possible for…
Read moreWhat are the components of a classical Jewish wedding ceremony and how do these components intersect with a same-sex marriage ritual? This piece aims to provide a framework for thinking about same-sex marriage rituals by laying out the legal components of the traditional wedding ceremony. The classical ritual will provide…
Read moreThe attitude of the Jewish renewal community to same-sex relationships is rooted in our sense that holiness is not a closed and limited commodity. For the Torah teaches, “Make sacred space for me to dwell, and I will be with you” (Ex. 25:8). This verse appears in that part of…
Read moreKeshet intern, Nuriel Gutman, recently sat down for an interview with Lenny Goldstein—avid cyclist, ambivalent spreadsheet expert, and, most notably, Keshet’s Chief Financial Officer since 2017. What inspired you to work at Keshet? Unfortunately, Keshet didn’t exist when I was young. I came of age as a gay man at…
View the originalJoin the City of Fort Worth and community partners at a free screening of “Freedom to Marry,” a 2016 documentary that traces the marriage equality movement’s historic progress and reveals its masterminds as they lead the fight to win same-sex marriage throughout the United States. After the screening, stay for…
Read moreHow did Joyful Song come to be? Joyful song was inspired by a real-life occurrence at my own synagogue when a family of two moms and their brand-new baby girl were invited up on the bima to welcome the baby into our community. When I saw that, I teared up.…
Read moreHow did Joyful Song come to be? Joyful song was inspired by a real-life occurrence at my own synagogue when a family of two moms and their brand-new baby girl were invited up on the bima to welcome the baby into our community. When I saw that, I teared up.…
Read moreDear Transgender Jew (or ally), As a trans Jew, myself, I have experienced some of the difficulties as well as moments of joy that come with existing in the intersection of transness and Jewishness. Yet, despite the growing breadth of literature on gay, lesbian, and other queer-identifying Jews, there’s still…
View the originalAs I completed grad school in 2011 with a Master of Social Work, I vividly remember my professors urging us to choose career paths where we could enact profound change within our own communities. Their words resonated deeply with me as a young Jewish woman. I wanted to apply my…
View the originalThe year was 1997. I was sitting on a purple futon next to my girlfriend surrounded by a circle of our friends, eating tabouli salad and messy crying. I was 23 years old and we had just seen Ellen DeGeneres come out on national television as a lesbian. Even for…
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