Ask the Rabbi: How do I make peace with Leviticus 18 as a Queer Jew?
Rabbi, I love being Jewish. But as a Queer Jew, I struggle with feeling like I love Judaism more than it loves me. What do I do to understand my […]
June 27, 2025
March 7, 2023
Drag Purim Event Brings Joy And Resilience To Queer Jews
Roughly 130 people dressed up and came out to the Urban Artifact brewery on March 3 for “Glitter, Groggers, and Glam: A Drag Purim Spiel,” where drag performers retold the […]
December 27, 2022
Elech Expands LGBTQ+ Jewish Life In Cincinnati
In November 2021, Zak and Elliot Draznin felt spiritually empty. The queer Jewish couple had graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2020 into the mostly-virtual Jewish life of the […]
August 15, 2022
Jew Review: ‘A Rainbow Thread’
When I was in college in the late 1980s, I devoured the work of Jewish feminists like Ellen Umansky and Judith Plaskow. They unearthed for me the previously hidden voices […]
August 15, 2022
An Understanding of Gender in the Torah from Binary to Merism
How can I curse what God has blessed? That is what Balaam, the go to prophet-for-hire in the 13th century BCE says to the King of Moab. We read these […]
August 15, 2022
Missouri Jewish Leaders Create Summer Sleepaway Camp For LGBTQ+ Youngsters
This article originally ran in the St. Louis Jewish Light and is used with permission. When Andy Brown and Dan Grabel founded Camp Manitowa in 2010, with two locations in […]
June 21, 2022
Jewish Song of the Week: ‘No Right Way to Love’ by Jason Mesches
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