This lesson will guide students through an experiential exercise on discrimination, and an exploration of LGBT legal rights.
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September 09, 2013 | By Nili Yosha
Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Ally, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This loosely defined lesson plan is designed for 4th-10th graders to be used over a 10 week period. As Justice Journalists, participants will create their own class newspaper, documenting acts of justice in the world around them.
If you're new to teaching LGBT content in a Jewish context, it might be helpful to review Guidelines for Introducing LGBT Content into the Jewish Classroom.
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August 29, 2013 | By Rebecca Weiner
Topic(s): Policies and Best Practices
Media Type(s): Teaching Guidelines
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This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This is a guide to help you navigate introducing LGBT content into your Jewish classroom. It is primarily written for teachers in elementary classrooms, but most of the principles apply to all age groups.
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Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Feminism, Ritual/Liturgy/Prayer, Transgender and Gender Identity, Rosh Chodesh
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson teaches participants about a contemporary Jewish feminist group and invites participants to explore the relationship between feminism and holiness. The lesson also introduces the concept of transphobia and its connection to misogyny.
If you're new to teaching LGBT content in a Jewish context, it might be helpful to review Guidelines for Introducing LGBT Content into the Jewish Classroom.
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August 28, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Ally, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Genesis, Talmud, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Vayera
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this half hour text study designed for 5th-12th graders, students will explore the fundamental value of welcome and inclusion. Students will also consider the challenges and benefits of caretaking the stranger. The lesson uses Genesis 18:1-8, as well as BT Shabbat 127a, as a way to engage the students in these themes.
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Sign in | Lost your password? The book of Bereishit (Genesis), the first book of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), begins with the story of God's creation of the world. Chapter 1 of Bereishit tells that the heavens and the earth were made in six days, with different aspects of the universe created on different days. This verse appears in the description of the sixth day, when God created human beings.
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August 29, 2013 | By Rebecca Weiner
Topic(s): Policies and Best Practices
Media Type(s): Teaching Guidelines
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This is a guide to help you navigate introducing LGBT content into your Jewish classroom. It is primarily written for teachers in elementary classrooms, but most of the principles apply to all age groups.
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This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson teaches participants about a contemporary Jewish feminist group and invites participants to explore the relationship between feminism and holiness. The lesson also introduces the concept of transphobia and its connection to misogyny.
If you're new to teaching LGBT content in a Jewish context, it might be helpful to review Guidelines for Introducing LGBT Content into the Jewish Classroom.
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August 28, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Ally, Jewish Values
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Textual Source: Genesis, Talmud, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Vayera
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this half hour text study designed for 5th-12th graders, students will explore the fundamental value of welcome and inclusion. Students will also consider the challenges and benefits of caretaking the stranger. The lesson uses Genesis 18:1-8, as well as BT Shabbat 127a, as a way to engage the students in these themes.
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September 11, 2013 | By Rachel Ackerman
Topic(s): Jewish Values, Transgender and Gender Identity
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Genesis, Talmud, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Bereshit
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
The goals of this lesson are to expose participants to Jewish texts that contain gender ambiguity, and to push participants to look at ways that their camp community is influenced by societal norms of gender in ways that can exclude others. At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to identify ways that they push traditional gender norms, explain how ancient and contemporary Jewish texts understand the first adam to have had an ambiguous gender identity, identify ways that they are forced to identify their gender at camp, and analyze ways that camp deals with and stresses gender identification.
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September 11, 2013 | By Rachel Ackerman
Topic(s): Ally, Bullying or Harassment
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Leviticus, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Kedoshim
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
The goal of this lesson is to make students aware of the language that they use and how it may offend others. At the end of this lesson, students will be able to list misused words, phrases, and actions that may offend others, discuss the relationship between Leviticus 19:18: (“Love your neighbor as yourself”) and the way language, phrases, and actions may affect others, and write a personal pledge to eliminate offensive behavior.
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September 11, 2013 | By Rebecca Weiner
Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Bullying or Harassment, Youth, Purim
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Esther
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This resource is a script for a post-modern Purim Spiel that can be performed and/or adapted. This spiel explores the Purim themes through the lens of the characters when they were young. In an alternative universe at Shushan high 2011, the LGBTQ students rally to create an anti-bullying program!
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August 29, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Ally, Jewish Law, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Genesis, Talmud, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Vayera
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this hour-long text study designed for 7th-12th graders, students will affirm the value of welcoming the stranger in Jewish text. Students will also explore the ways that welcome (opening up one’s home) leads to an ethic of solidarity (the act of publicly standing up for someone else). The lesson uses Genesis 18:1-8, as well as BT Shabbat 127a and Rambam Yad, Laws of Mourning, Chapter 14, as a way to engage the students in these themes.
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September 11, 2013 | By Rebecca Weiner, Roni Alperin
Topic(s): Ally, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson explores the interplay between dominant cultural perceptions of perfection and how that informs xenophobia. Students learn about the experiences of LGBT people in Nazi Germany with a focus on gay, Jewish Holocaust survivor, Gad Beck.
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September 11, 2013 | By Martin Rawlings-Fein
Topic(s): Jewish Law, Jewish Values
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Appropriate for grade level(s): High School, Middle School
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This lesson will help students think about the relationship between traditional Jewish sacred texts and contemporary Jewish texts, through exploring the concepts of midrash and the genizah. The lesson includes a brainstorm of Jewish texts, giving the instructor an opportunity to introduce students to contemporary LGBT Jewish books.
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August 29, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Genesis, Talmud, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Noach
Appropriate for grade level(s): College and Adult
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This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this 45-minute lesson designed for adults, participants will explore an early rabbinic reading of Genesis that highlights the rabbi’s approach to male homosexual relations. Participants will also explore themes of power and powerlessness. The lesson uses Genesis 9:20-25, Ibn Ezra on 9:24, and Sanhedrin 70a as a way to engage participants in these themes.
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September 09, 2013 | By Nili Yosha
Topic(s): Ritual/Liturgy/Prayer
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson, designed for 7th-12th graders, aims to help students understand that naming something or someone has power. Students will identify names for themselves, names people give for LGBT folks, and names of G-d.
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Topic(s): Families and Parenting
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Exodus
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
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This lesson, designed for 4th — 10th graders, explores how perception is created through the angle that a narrative is told. Students examine the Wizard of Oz and the story of Moses from different angles to help understand how that changes the shape of content of a narrative.
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September 09, 2013 | By Jennifer Bersdale
Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Legislation
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School
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This lesson will guide students through an experiential exercise on discrimination, and an exploration of LGBT legal rights.
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September 09, 2013 | By Nili Yosha
Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Ally, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This loosely defined lesson plan is designed for 4th-10th graders to be used over a 10 week period. As Justice Journalists, participants will create their own class newspaper, documenting acts of justice in the world around them.
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By Rebecca Weiner
Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Ally, Bullying or Harassment, Jewish Law, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson, which can be adapted for 5th-12th graders, helps students explore discrimination and how Jewish values can help us to pursue social justice. Students pick a Jewish value to help guide them towards an issue of social justice. Students also design a campaign to address a cause that has meaning to them.
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September 09, 2013 | By Martin Rawlings-Fein
Topic(s): Jews by Choice, Jews of Color, Ritual/Liturgy/Prayer, Transgender and Gender Identity
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson, designed for 4th-7th graders, explores Jewish identity and examines Jewish diversity. In the lesson, students will explore diaspora Jewry and contemporary representations of Jewish identity including race and LGBT Jewish identity. Students will also make mezuzot as a symbol of Jewish homes regardless of where their homes are.
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September 09, 2013 | By Rachel Ackerman
Topic(s): Conservative Movement, Jewish Law, Jewish Values, Orthodox Movement, Reconstructionist Movement, Reform Movement
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Leviticus, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Achrei Mot, Kedoshim
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
The goals of this lesson are to provide participants with an overview about Judaism’s stances on homosexuality, and to encourage participants to grapple with the tensions between remaining true to the text and discounting aspects of text which feel unethical to modern senses.
By the end of this lesson, participants will be able to summarize two biblical texts related to prohibitions on homosexual male sex, analyze the two biblical texts related to prohibitions on homosexual male sex, compare and contrast different Jewish denominational stances on homosexuality and discuss the tension between the intention of the text and liberal ethical standards.
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September 09, 2013 | By Andrea Guerra
Topic(s): Families and Parenting, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Genesis, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Bereshit, Chayei Sara
Appropriate for grade level(s): Early Childhood, Elementary
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This lesson for Pre-K through 1st grade will help students explore and affirm different family structures as they appear in the bible and in students’ own experience.
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September 03, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Jewish Values
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Textual Source: Talmud
Appropriate for grade level(s): College and Adult
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This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this 60-minute lesson designed for adults, participants will gain greater understanding of the “sin” of Sodom in the rabbinic tradition. The lesson uses Sanhedrin 109b, Middat Sedom, and Ramban (Rabbi Moses ben Nachman) on the verse, Genesis 19:5, as a way to engage participants in this exploration.
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August 29, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Talmud
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School, Middle School
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This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this hour-long lesson designed for 7th-12th graders, students will explore how difference functions in their lives. Students will also be introduced to the ways that communities make sense of differences, and how mere distinctions can come to be imbued with moral connotations. The lesson uses BT Berachot 58b and BT Shabbat 53b as a way to engage students in these themes.
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September 03, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Ezekiel, Genesis, Talmud, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Vayera
Appropriate for grade level(s): College and Adult
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This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this 90-minute lesson designed for adults, participants will explore biblical and rabbinic perspectives on Sodom and the nature of its “sin”. The lesson uses Genesis 18:20-21 and 19:1-13, as well as Ezekiel 16:49-50, Tosefta Sota 3, Sanhedrin 108a, and Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer, 25 as a way to engage participants in these themes.
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By Rebecca Weiner
Topic(s): Ally, Bullying or Harassment, Jewish Values, Purim
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This resource is a script for a post-modern Purim Spiel that can be performed and/or adapted. Use it to engage students in a Purim Shpeil that explores contemporary themes of bullying and inclusion and helps students to relate the Purim story to their lives. The inclusion of LGBT characters helps students to explore Jewish content through a more inclusive lens.
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August 29, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Ally, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Genesis, Talmud, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Vayera
Appropriate for grade level(s): College and Adult, High School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this hour-long text study designed for 9th-12th graders and adults, students will explore the Jewish value of inclusivity, as well as the challenges of engaging with those who are very different from oneself. Students will also consider the ways that difference can been seen as disgusting or wondrous, depending on perspective. The lesson uses Genesis 18:1-8, as well as Plimo, Kiddushin 81a – 81b and BT Shabbat 53b, as a way to engage the students in these themes.
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September 09, 2013 | By Rachel Ackerman
Topic(s): Ally, Coming Out, National Coming Out Day
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): High School
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The goal of this lesson, designed for high school aged Counselors in Training, is to create a space for participants to think critically about how accessible camp is for those who are LGBT. At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to identify the difficulties of coming out in the camp environment, evaluate whether their camp is a safe and comfortable space for someone to come out at camp, and create a coming-out ceremony for camp.
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September 03, 2013 | By Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Topic(s): Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Genesis, Torah Books
Torah Portion: Vayera
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson plan was developed for Keshet by Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men. In this half hour text study designed for K-3rd graders, students will use biblical text explore the fundamental values of welcome and inclusion. The lesson uses Genesis 18:1-8 as a way to engage the students in these themes.
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September 03, 2013 | By Martin Rawlings-Fein
Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Holocaust, Jewish Law, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Deutoronomy
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson was designed to help students understand the main ways that we can fulfill the mitzvah of Bal Taschit, “Do not destroy.” The lesson explores this theme through environmental concerns and values that help humans to protect each other, and invokes Transgender Day of Remembrance in posing the question: does this law apply to all of G-d's creations, including humans?
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September 03, 2013 | By Rebecca Weiner
Topic(s): Coming Out, Families and Parenting, Jewish Law, Jewish Values
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): Early Childhood, Elementary
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This is a Jewish LGBT children's story for pre-K — 3rd graders that focuses on the themes of a single parent home, adoption, being chosen by G-d, and chosen family. Through this story, students will learn about a Jewish family that is a single parent Lesbian home and about the concept of being “chosen” in Judaism.
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By Kendra Lubalin
Topic(s): Jewish Law
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Textual Source: Torah Books
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
This resource is part of the LGBT Jewish Curricula collection.
This lesson for 4th-12th graders looks at how to apply mitzvot to contemporary life. It examines how Responsa shaped mitzvot and Jewish law so it evolved through time. This is a loosely structured lesson plan that can be tailored to different groups based on age, access to technology, and time allotted.
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September 03, 2013 | By Kendra Lubalin
Topic(s): Activism & Civil Rights, Coming Out, Interfaith, Jewish Values, Jews by Choice, Jews of Color, Lifecycle Events, Transgender and Gender Identity, Youth
Media Type(s): Lesson Plan/Activities
Appropriate for grade level(s): Elementary, High School, Middle School
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This lesson designed for 5th–12th graders will help students explore Jewish identity through social media and online culture. Students will research different YouTube videos and explore different expressions of Jewish culture. This is a loosely structured lesson plan that can be tailored to different groups based on age, access to technology, and time allotted.
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Topic(s): Coming Out, Policies and Best Practices, Youth
Media Type(s): Educational Tool
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Some concrete suggestions to consider when a teenager comes out to you.
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To be used in conjunction with Keshet's Curriculum Resource Guide. Sample workshop (group of curricula) for half day on gender diversity and sexual orientation.
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Hineini Curriculum Resource Guide
Part B: The Role of Allies
Core Lesson/Group Activity (or Opening Activity)
1. What Does It Mean to Be an Ally?
Description: This activity begins with a short text study of Talmudic teachings about communal responsibility.
Students then explore together the role of an “ally” in creating change. Students are asked to recall moments
when they stood up for someone else or when someone stood up for them and to use their experiences to
examine what it means to be an effective ally to someone. You can follow the entire lesson plan, or choose
portions to do with your students.
Time: 30 – 45 minutes
(the time required depends on how many portions of this lesson plan you choose to do)
Recommended Age Range: grades 7 – 12
Objectives:
n Examine Jewish texts that ask us to be socially responsible for ourselves and others.
n Define the word “ally” as it relates to social change and individual actions.
n Examine what it means to be an ally to others.
Materials:
n Board or easel and paper
n Chalk or markers
n Optional (for a longer time period): “Making It Real” worksheet
Suggested Film Clips:
Title Length
The Job of an Ally 0:37
Rainbow Keychain 2:05
Instructions:
1. Read the following passages from the Talmud to participants and ask them to discuss the meaning of these
teachings. (You may also want to write them on the board or hand them out to participants and ask a
volunteer to read each one aloud for the group.)
Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh – ?? ????? ????? ?? ???
All Israel is responsible one for the other.
—shavuot 39a
Share with participants that the rabbis of the Talmud understood this statement to be part of our larger
covenant with God in receiving the Torah. It teaches us that we are all responsible for each other’s well being.
This mitzvah implores us to stand up for one another, but also to stand up to one another when we see wrong
being done. The word arevim in Hebrew has a stronger meaning than responsibility. It tells us that if we do not
stand up when we see others doing wrong it is as though we have committed the act ourselves.
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The great Talmudic sage, Rabbi Hillel, said:
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
How is standing up for ourselves related to standing up for others?
2. Write the word ALLY on the board or easel paper in large print and ask participants to brainstorm for two or
three minutes all the words that come to mind when they read the word.
3. Record their responses in a “cloud” or circle around the word ALLY. Ask the participants to look at the
words they have come up with and discuss how these words are related. Use these words and ideas to create a
collective working definition for the word ALLY.
4. Now ask participants to think of a time when they stood up for someone else or a time when someone else
stood up for them. How did this make them feel? Ask them to write down the challenges and benefits of
being in that situation on a piece of paper that they will then share with a partner. You can give examples
such as:
“I told someone to stop making fun of another person.”
“A challenge was that I was afraid the person would turn his anger toward me.”
“A benefit was that I felt good about myself for doing what I thought was right.”
5. Have participants pair up to share their responses with someone else.
6. Ask for volunteers to report back the challenges and benefits of sticking up for someone and/or of having
someone stick up for you.
7. Record the responses on the board in two pairs of columns – the challenges and benefits of being an ally and
the challenges and benefits of having someone be an ally to you.
8. Ask participants to discuss what they notice from their responses. The following questions might be helpful
prompts:
a. Is it easier or harder to be an ally or to have someone be an ally to you?
b. What makes someone a good ally?
c. In what kinds of situations is it easier or harder to be an ally? Does it matter who else is present? Whether
you’re interacting with friends or strangers?
9. If you are using this as a longer activity, you can expand the lesson by leading the role-playing game
“FREEZE.” First have participants take five minutes to brainstorm some scenarios that would require
someone to be an ally to another person. (They can use the situations they described earlier or offer new
ones.)
10. Now have a few volunteers act out a scenario. During the role play, any one of the players can call out
“FREEZE!” at any time to freeze the action of the role play. The person who calls out “FREEZE” then
chooses someone else in the class to replace him or her. The new person joins the scenario so that he/she
can take it in a different direction. After the group has acted out a few scenarios in this fashion, discuss the
different choices each person made.
11. Close the activity by going around the room and asking participants to share if and how the activity has given
them new understanding of what it means to be an ally. Ask participants to fill out the “Making It Real” sheet
with commitments to take new steps toward creating change in their community.
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One way I can be an ally to others at my school or in my community is…
One step I can take to make my school or community more welcoming to
all students is…
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This activity begins with a short text study of Talmudic teachings about communal responsibility. Students then explore together the role of an “ally” in creating change. Students are asked to recall moments when they stood up for someone else or when someone stood up for them and to use their experiences to examine what it means to be an effective ally to someone. You can follow the entire lesson plan, or choose portions to do with your students.
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In this activity, students examine a text about the differences between the rabbinic schools of Hillel and Shammai. This activity helps students understand the meaning of pluralism both in action and as a value in Judaism.
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This role play debate gives students the opportunity to examine what pluralism looks like in action. Students take on the roles of members of a religious policy committee at a new school to discuss, debate, and determine school policy on three issues.
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This lesson looks at original source materials to see how the Jewish legal code’s standards about the status of deaf people have changed over the centuries. It suggests that the Jewish legal position about homosexuality could also change over time.
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This session gives some guidelines for helping institutions and organizations understand the multi-faceted process of bringing the ideological and spiritual practice of inclusion into alignment with the material and cultural “face” of the institution.
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This exercise gives participants an opportunity to investigate how a perceived shared identity can in fact contain significant diversity. By articulating all the different aspects of their identities, participants have an opportunity to consider how each aspect interacts with and shapes their Jewish identity. The activity also reveals the diversity that exists within the presumed shared “Jewish” identity.
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This “chalk-talk” activity is an empathy–building exercise about the risks individuals take (or are afraid to take) in order to be seen and known within their community. After viewing the film, students will reflect on the experiences and reactions of different people at The New Jewish High School as they concealed parts of their personal identities or chose to reveal their identities by coming out.
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Hands-on activity for students to discuss proscribed gender roles. For all all ages with adjusted discussion questions for age and developmental appropriateness.
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This lesson is designed for use with Hineini or as part of a curriculum in history, social studies, or civics. Using small group work, class discussion, text analysis, and writing exercises, students examine the writing and actions of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel as an ally in the Civil Rights Movement. They explore Heschel’s concepts of self-emancipation, spiritual audacity, and moral grandeur in the contexts of both his own actions and the actions of students at The New Jewish High School. Given the complexity of the concepts discussed, this lesson is recommended to be used with students who are in tenth grade and above but invite educators to adapt it for use with younger students.
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This is a list of suggested resources for Jewish educators, parents, and youth program leaders. It includes books, film, and websites. The document features a focused list of key resources that we think may be most helpful to Jewish educators, as well as an expanded bibliography on the theme of LGBT Jews.
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Suggestions for inclusive lesson planning at the Elementary level and how to include GLB/Trans experiences and perspectives in the
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Let Us Come Home
June 6, 2013
Dan Brotman is a gay man from Massachusetts. So, legally, he can marry his fiancé, Keith. The only catch is that Keith is South African – so unlike heterosexual couples, Keith is not allowed to enter the U.S. as Dan’s legal spouse.
As a same-sex bi-national couple, Dan and Keith are not entitled to the same rights and protections as heterosexual couples. In order to live together, they have to live in South Africa.
Unfortunately, an amendment to the immigration reform legislation Congress is currently debating, which would have protected bi-national same-sex couples like Dan and Keith, was recently withdrawn.…
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Your Jewish Guide to Celebrating LGBTQ Pride
June 5, 2013
Every June people across the world celebrate LGBTQ Pride. As LGBTQ Jews and allies, we are proud of our own identities and those of our loved ones. Whether you are looking for a Pride Shabbat service, a fabulous Jewish sign to hold in a Pride Parade, or just want some inspiration, you’ve come to the right place!
I. EVENTS
Visit our Pride Events page for a list of Jewish LGBTQ Pride events happening across the United States (and a few in Canada too!) this June.
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II. DOWNLOADS
Download your own Pride posters, stickers, and a graphic to help…
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Parashat Korach: A Revolution with Boundaries
June 3, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Rebecca Weiner considers the need for order and boundaries, even in the midst of a revolution.
Creative Common/chris.corwin
Looking back on my childhood, I often feel like I emerged out of two totally different worlds. I grew up in the “free to be you…
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Family Stories Part I… and Part II
A series by Jewish moms and dads with LGBTQ children.
When a child comes out, a coming out process begins for the entire family. In honor of Mother’s and Father’s Day, we bring you our third post in a series by parent leaders of Keshet’s Parent & Family Connection. The Connection is a confidential peer support program for parents and family members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews. We celebrate the support and love that these parents give their LGBTQ children – and the support they now offer other parents. This week’s post is by Carole Lukoff, mother of a gay…
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Orthodox Parents, United by Love of Torah… and Our LGBT Children
May 24, 2013
A series by Jewish moms and dads with LGBTQ children.
When a child comes out, a coming out process begins for the entire family. In honor of Mother’s and Father’s Day, we bring you our second post in a series by parent leaders of Keshet’s Parent & Family Connection. The Connection is a confidential peer support program for parents and family members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews. We celebrate the support and love that these parents give their LGBTQ children – and the support they now offer other parents. This week’s post is by “MBSD,” an Orthodox parent from Baltimore,…
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Celebrating Harvey Milk Day
May 22, 2013
Today Harvey Milk would have been 83. Instead, this gay Jewish hero, who was cut down in his prime, remains a vaunted icon of gay rights across the globe. On his birthday, now known as Harvey Milk Day, we celebrate his work, life, and lasting legacy. At Keshet, we’re honoring his life and achievements by bringing you some rare photos of this pioneer.
After a career that included the Navy, high school teaching, and time on Wall Street, Milk moved to San Francisco. By 1973, he launched his first run for City Supervisor – and lost. In 1977, after his…
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Parashat Be’Ha’alotecha: ‘Am’ (Yisrael) Comin’ Out!
May 20, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Torah Queeries online collection. This week, Rabbi Karen Perolman examines the Israelites’ struggles with their “coming out” experiences.
Creative Common/doyoubleedlikeme
Coming-out (of the closet): To be “in the closet” means to hide one’s sexual and or gender identity. Many GBLT people are “out” in some situations and “closeted” in others.
– from Kulanu: All of Us,…
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Parashat Naso: Queer Nazir and the Twelve Identical Gifts
May 14, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Torah Queeries online collection. This week, Darren Lippman considers the similarities between Nazirites and LGBT Jews – two populations who are “set aside” in important ways.
Creative Common/Alexander Smolianitski
I first read Parashat Naso during my b’nei mitzvah class in early 2002, long before I discovered either my passion for Judaism or my love of writing.…
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Love Our Families
May 10, 2013
Here at the Keshet blog, we’re celebrating Mother’s Day with a reminder of how important parental love and support are. So here’s our Mother’s Day gift to you (and your mom(s)): a one minute video by our friends at The Righteous Conversations Project, a project of Remember Us, which brings together Holocaust survivors and teens to speak up about injustice through new media workshops and community engagements. In this short clip, two teens compare notes about their supportive, if slightly overbearing, parents. As these teens remind us, the things that bind families together, like love, concern, and even a little loving parental nagging, are pretty…
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Counting the Omer…Counting my Blessings
May 9, 2013
A series by Jewish moms and dads with LGBTQ children.
When a child comes out, a coming out process begins for the entire family. In honor of Mother’s and Father’s Day, we bring you our first post in a series by parent leaders of Keshet’s Parent & Family Connection. The Connection is a confidential peer support program for parents and family members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews. We celebrate the support and love that these parents give their LGBTQ children – and the support they now offer other parents. This week’s post is by Francine Lavin Weaver, a Colorado-based educator…
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First Fruits of the LGBT Movement
May 8, 2013
Part of the observance of Shavuot, the traditional spring harvest holiday, is the celebration of the bikkurim, the first fruits of the year. In this post, Becky Silverstein honors those “first fruits” of the LGBT movement who have made so much progress possible.
Creative Common/David Heise
The journey from Passover to Shavout is seven weeks. Counting each night, we count the steps towards revelation and still, suddenly, the time for receiving Torah is here! As I prepare for my own experience of revelation this year, here is what I expect to see at Sinai: I expect to see millions of…
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Parashat B’midbar: The Gift of the Wilderness
May 6, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Torah Queeries online collection. This week, Alex Carter sees the beauty of the delicate ecosystem of the Biblical wilderness – and in the unique queer culture we’re in danger of losing.
Creative Common/Kwong Yee Cheng
This week’s parsha, B’midbar, begins, as many parshiyot begin, with the words, “G-d spoke to Moses…” But this week, it specifies that…
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Tu B’Av: Day of Love
July 3, 2013
Tu B’Av is a little-known Jewish holiday, coming just six days after the mournful commemoration of tragedy during Tisha B’Av. In ancient times, Tu B’Av was a joyous matchmaking holiday for unmarried young women; in our day, it’s observed as a more general day of love. In the spirit of this holiday, we present you with snapshots of three well-known, real-life, queer and Jewish love stories.
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Tony Kushner is a playwright and author, best known for his epic play Angels in America, while Mark Harris is an author and editor whose focus has been…
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Parashat Matot and Parashat Masei: Speaking Truth in This World
July 1, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Torah Queeries online collection. This week, Rabbi Seth Goren examines what Jeremiah’s attempts at correcting Jerusalemites’ behavior can teach us about fighting ignorance, homophobia, and transphobia today.
Creative Common/Jamie Matthews
Biblical prophets typically have a rough time. Elijah is effectively chased out of the Kingdom of Israel after being threatened with a death sentence. After attempting…
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What Happens When Pride Month Ends?
June 27, 2013
I’m still reeling from yesterday’s amazing news.
And I’m so incredibly proud and inspired to see so many LGBTQ Jews and straight allies stand up to affirm the Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA and Prop 8 in cities across the country like Washington DC, Denver, Miami, Cambridge, and San Francisco.
I don’t think Hollywood could have scripted a better ending to Pride Month.
But what happens when the excitement of DOMA and Pride end? Check out this one minute video to see our vision:…
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Mazel Tov! DOMA and Prop 8 are struck down
June 26, 2013
Two years ago this summer, I stood under a chuppah (marriage canopy) with my wife. Because we live in Massachusetts, we are “lucky” that our relationship is recognized by our state. However, under the current law, we are denied 1,138 federal rights that our straight friends are automatically granted when they wed.
Today, this discrimination is over!
We are elated that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of fairness and equality by striking down DOMA and Prop 8. Our ancient Jewish values teach us that we all are created B’tzelem Elohim (in God’s Image) and our current laws violated this…
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Transforming Stories
A Small Revolution in a Synagogue Book Group
This past January, Hebrew College invited poet and scholar Joy Ladin to speak during our Winter Seminar on Feminist Theology, Theory, and Practice. Weaving her personal story of transition with a clearly articulated theology, Ladin held the community’s attention for over an hour. I sat in the front row, typing notes and being held by her gentle, soft-spoken way of being. As a trans* identified student, I was overwhelmed by the ways my story and my experience of the divine were being seen and lifted up for what felt like the first…
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Parashat Pinchas: The Wife of Moses, the Mother of Pinchas and other Midianites
June 24, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Torah Queeries online collection. This week, David Katzenelson explains what the silence of the Biblical Zipporah can teach us about refusing to allow ourselves to be ignored.
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Parashat Pinchas takes its name from Pinchas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron. The story of Pinchas covers all of chapter 25 in Numbers. To understand…
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She Is Who He Is
June 21, 2013
When teens transitions to a new gender, what happens to the rest of the family? In November, we shared a post from the perspective of a daughter whose father transitioned to being a woman; now, we’re bringing you the first of two essays written by a sibling. Sophie, a high schooler whose sister (now brother) transitioned within the last few years, writes here about what the beginning of those changes felt like for her as a sister. In her next essay, she’ll discuss her brother’s eventual surgery.
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I would first like to start out by saying I love…
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Parashat Balak: Something Queer in the Vineyards
June 15, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Andrew Ramer considers the “queer” power of talking animals, and the blessings and curses they can bear.
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The American Heritage Dictionary says this of Queer:
1. Deviating from the expected or normal; strange; a queer situation.
2. Odd or unconventional, as in…
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Queer Tribes: Finding a Place for Alternative Families
June 14, 2013
In honor of Father’s/Fathers’ Day, we bring you Gregg Drinkwater’s essay on being a gay dad. You can read other posts in our series on and by parents: by a mother of a queer daughter in Colorado, here; by an Orthodox parent from Baltimore, MD, here; by the mother of a gay son in the Philadelphia suburbs, here; by the mother of gay twins and wife of a rabbi, here; and a video celebration of Mother’s Day/Mothers’ Day here. This essay, originally published in May 2006, is drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, based on the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the…
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Out at Shul… and No Big Deal
June 12, 2013
A series by Jewish moms and dads with LGBTQ children.
When a child comes out, a coming out process begins for the entire family. In honor of Mother’s and Father’s Day, we bring you our third post in a series by parent leaders of Keshet’s Parent & Family Connection. The Connection is a confidential peer support program for parents and family members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews. We celebrate the support and love that these parents give their LGBTQ children – and the support they now offer other parents. This week’s post is by Ruth Loew, wife of a rabbi…
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Parashat Chukkat: Clean/Unclean
June 8, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Rabbi Jill Hammer considers the connections between impurities, power, and the roles of Moses’ sister Miriam.
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The biblical categories tahor and tamei, usually translated “pure” and “impure,” mean something like insider/outsider. One who is tahor can enter the sanctuary, the…
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Tammuz: Remembering Our Spiritual Center
June 7, 2013
How Jewish is the Hebrew Calendar? When we use a Hebrew word to identify a period of time, we may believe that we are making a more authentically Jewish choice. However, like so many words and concepts in ancient Judaism, the name “Tammuz” typifies the syncretic past of our people, fused together from various traditions.
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We learn in the Book of Ezekiel:
“And God brought me to the entrance at the Gate of the House of the Lord which was at the north; and there were there women sitting, bewailing the Tammuz.” (8:14)
Why were the women bewailing…
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Parashat Ki Teitze: Amalek and the Good Soldier
August 12, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Noach Dzmura charges us not to forget the Torah’s “good soldier.”
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This Torah portion encompasses almost four chapters and is the source of more than 70 of the 613 mitzvoth. Because the parasha seems at first glance to be disjointed and…
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Parashat Shoftim: Doubling the Weight of Our Words
August 5, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Cantor David Reinwald investigates how the repetition of key words can inspire a continual struggle for justice.
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The only way I can describe how one approaches Parashat Shoftim is with honor, as this portion surrounds itself in such ideals. I find that…
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Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell
August 2, 2013
Welcome to our fifth installment of “Queer Clergy in Action,” spotlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rabbis and cantors. This behind-the-scenes look at queer clergy covers both those who have paved the way and up-and-coming trailblazers. Here, we interview Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell.
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Coming out can be really difficult and it can be especially risky for those who are, or aspire to be, clergy. Nonetheless, this vanguard has helped open up the Jewish world, and we’re very proud to shine an extra light on their work, their ideas, and their stories. You can also read the…
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Parashat Re’eh: Observe That Which I Enjoin Upon You
July 29, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Gregg Drinkwater, former Colorado Regional Director of Keshet, considers the “prophesy” of LGBT Jews, and how it can powerfully change Judaism.
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In the opening lines of Parashat Re’eh, Moses shares both a blessing and a curse with the Israelites. “The blessing: if…
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Pride and Pain in the Orthodox World
July 24, 2013
“There was a deep sense of comfort, of relief, of finally feeling like we could be ourselves.”
“I was amazed at how liberating it was to spend time with others with whom we have so much in common.”
“Being in a community that truly felt like a community for so many reasons that are absent in my day-to-day life experience in our Orthodox community.”
— Eshel Shabbaton attendees
When I was 24, I came out to my parents the day before the gay pride parade in New York City. My parents and I were closer than close, and they knew…
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Parashat Ekev: Taking Steps
July 22, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Amos Lassen considers what Moses can teach us about LGBT pride.
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The book of Deuteronomy focuses on the time just before the death of Moses. The Israelites are encamped on a plateau in Moab, poised to enter the land of Israel. Parashat…
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Wrapping Myself in the Fringes
July 19, 2013
This was the d’var Torah (discourse) I gave at the Jewish service on Friday night at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, 14 June 2013. In it, I build on and try to give a preliminary answer to a question I started to explore some time ago, as one conference participant put it, “What does a gal do with her bar mitzvah tallit?”
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The time was two o’clock in the morning, and I was about to complete the crafting project I’d been working on all evening. I sat on the couch with my scissors in one hand and…
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Parashat Vaetchanan: A Less Innocent Love
July 16, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Jay Michaelson imagines how LGBT people can fulfill the commandment to love God with all of our hearts, souls, and might.
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A tension: We are commanded, in Parashat Vaetchanan, to love God with all our heart, soul, and might – v’ahavta et…
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Queer Jewish Dating
July 15, 2013
What does it mean to be Jewish and queer? What about dating queer and Jewish? Does it make a difference?
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I am Shaily Hakimian from Lincolnshire, Illinois studying elementary education at Indiana University. I have been working in the LGBT movement since I was 14 – so about 8 years. I grew up going to Solomon Schechter Day School where I received a Conservative Jewish education as a Sephardic Jew living in America. My dad is from Iran and my mom is from Morocco, though she spent part of her life in Israel. My mom…
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What I Wish I Had Known at 13
July 10, 2013
When the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would decide on the legality of California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act in June, I decided to take a look at a speech I gave about lesbian and gay families for my synagogue’s oratory contest in 2004. At the time, Multnomah County, Oregon (a mile from where I lived) had briefly legalized same-sex marriage, bringing LGBTQ rights to the local forefront for the first time I could remember; I, as a not-yet-aware-I-was-queer 13-year-old, wanted to share my thoughts from a Jewish perspective. My speech (which won second place in…
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Parashat Devarim: Out from the Mountain: Finding the Good Land
July 8, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Marisa James sees common themes in the need for the ancient Israelites, and LGBT people throughout history, to keep moving forward.
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And God said unto Moses: it is time for a travelogue, so that the Israelites may see where they…
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Queer, Trans*, and In Israel
July 5, 2013
Living in Israel, for me, meant mastering the art of feigning ignorance. “Ani lo mevin, ani lo mevin. Rak midaber englit v sfardit,” I would often say. “I don’t understand, I don’t understand. I only speak English and Spanish.”
But I always knew exactly what the stranger in the kibbutz cafeteria or the shop-owner in the shuk or the security guard by the bathroom was saying as he chuckled to himself and asked, “Atah ben o bat?” with eyebrows raised. His Hebrew translates to, “Are you a boy or a girl?” but really what he’s getting at is, “Come on,…
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My Best Friend Came Out At Our Yeshiva
October 11, 2013
In September, a family member came out to me after months of struggling with his sexual orientation. He cited the earlier version of this very blog post, which appeared on my personal blog, as a source of strength. I hope it might help others as well. – GG
He stopped the music.
He stood up on the fireplace of the room that nearly every member of our school was occupying. He began to speak. He thanked all of us for welcoming him into our community, for making him feel like he had been here his entire life. What he had…
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From My Orthodox Yeshiva to Standing With My Husband Under the Huppah
October 10, 2013
David and Jonathan’s Wedding by Shannen Norman
When I thought about my future as a kid, the image of a wedding would come into focus. A beautiful huppah, my beaming parents, and adult me standing next to the love of my life with whom I’d build a Jewish family. Judaism was always a strong and important force in my life, one I cherished. My commitment to carrying on my heritage was a given, particularly charged by the fact that I’m the grandson of Holocaust survivors. But as I grew into my teens, that image of my future became distorted when…
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My Journey to Authentic Living
October 9, 2013
We’re incredibly grateful to Yiscah for sharing this excerpt from her forthcoming book, 40 Years in the Wilderness: My Journey to Authentic Living. She describes her book as her “memoir of the joys and struggles with my own spirituality, gender identity, and commitment to living true to myself.” You can learn more about Yishcah here and learn more about the book here.
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Approaching the Western Wall thrust me into the very consciousness that frightened me the most in my life and caused my chronic daily anxiety. The walk to touch the stones for myself, a powerful…
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Parashat Noach: Apres le Deluge: Moi
September 30, 2013
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Michael Sarid sees echoes of Noah’s behavior after the flood among Holocaust survivors – and those who lived through the AIDS crisis.
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Imagine that you are alone in the world. A monumental calamity has destroyed life as you knew…
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Simchat Torah: Circling Back
September 24, 2013
Rabbi Jane Litman first presented these words of Torah for Simchat Torah in 2006, as part of the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. Her message is just as profound and relevant today.
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Wow! Here we are – we have accomplished so much. We were oppressed, then came together and confronted the oppression. We built a movement, resolved internal disputes, struggled with leadership, created a new set of social norms, overcame setbacks, and moved forward. It’s taken a long time – many years – but now,…
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What We Can Learn from the Rich Symbolism of Sukkot
September 14, 2013
There are more spiritually resonant symbols associated with the Festival of Sukkot than with any other major Jewish holiday. On Yom Kippur, the only visual marker is the special clothing many wear as symbols of teshuvah. On Passover, the redemptive symbol of matzah is joined by the visual and performative symbolism of the Seder. Shavuot has almost no visible reminders of the holiday other than the special liturgy. But Sukkot offers the 4 species (lulav, etrog, willows, and myrtle), each with their own multi-layered significance, as well as the sukkah itself, a symbolically powerful stage that encourages those celebrating the holiday to…
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Shipwrecked with God
September 11, 2013
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Communities, institutions, families and friendships create a sense of common identity, a sense of “we.” Since no two people – no two Jews, or gay men, or lesbians, or transgender people, or Orthodox Jews, or even identical twins – are the same, that sense of common identity is always created despite our differences, as when my family saw my sister as one of us despite the fact that she was the only blond, blue-eyed, left-handed member. Those were trivial differences, but they still made us uncomfortable; my parents teased my sister about them, and when she…
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Sinking into Compassion: The Book of Jonah and Yom Kippur
September 9, 2013
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