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September Bisexual Awareness Week – September 16-23 / Celebrate Bisexuality Day – September 23 Learn about the Jewish bisexual “Mother of Pride” Brenda Howard. Learn about what bisexuality is and means. Uplift the struggles and challenges that bisexual individuals face in society, such as biphobia and bi erasure. Learn how…
Read morePublished by kveller.com. Read it there! In 2011, Els Kushner got a call that changed her life forever and — while this might sound like hyperbole — changed the course of Jewish kids’ literature forever. The call was from Keshet, a Jewish LGBTQ organization, telling Kushner that out of over…
Read moreRead at jta.org! As we approach Purim – a holiday that honors the courage to be our true selves – we are alarmed by the surge of legislative attacks on the rights, safety and dignity of LGBTQ youth across the nation. Among over 100 pending anti-LGBTQ bills are the recently…
Read moreJuly/August Tu B’Av Throw a Loving Day Celebration honoring all types of love and partnership in your community Watch the documentary Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement that follows the interfaith lesbian partnership that led to the successful court case that made same-gender marriage legal on the federal level in…
Read more(JTA) — In the 1980s, Dennis Neill, an employee of our family business, came out as gay to my late father, Charles Schusterman. Coming out in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the height of the AIDS crisis was a risky thing to do, and it could have cost Dennis his job. But…
Read moreRabbi Adina Lewittes (Dini) is the founding rabbi of Sha’ar, a northern NJ/NYC-based, values-driven Jewish community oriented around the call to societal, environmental and spiritual sustainability. Sha’ar provides multiple gateways into Jewish life exemplified by a commitment to inclusiveness, diversity, innovation, scholarship, excellence and collaboration. Dini recently served as the Scholar…
Read moreKeshet’s President & CEO, Idit Klein, and Board Chair, Seth M. Marnin, issued the following Statement on the Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a crisis for our community We are deeply concerned about the lasting harm to LGBTQ…
Read moreKeshet’s President & CEO, Idit Klein, and Board Chair, Seth M. Marnin, issued the following Statement on the Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a crisis for our community We are deeply concerned about the lasting harm to LGBTQ…
Read morePublished on 05.11.2015 It all began with an eleven-year-old transgender camper named Hannah. Ahead of the summer of 2014, Hannah’s mother Tamar Gendler phoned Louis Bordman, the 55-year-old director of Camp Eisner, the Reform Jewish Movement’s summer camp her child had been attending for the past three years. The purpose…
Read moreby Idit Klein | October 7, 2020 I am deeply troubled that Justices Thomas and Alito took steps to dismantle marriage equality on their first day back at the Supreme Court after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg z”l. It is both not a surprise and an outrage that they…
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