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“Being in queer, Jewish spaces and community used to feel amazing but now feels sad and isolating, a reminder that I’m ‘missing out’ on Hashem’s gift or don’t feel like I can be my full self there. Do you think coming out to someone is worth it?”
Much like the land that American Jews live on, the money we give as tzedekah is not ours; rather, we are obligated to give it back to whom it truly belongs.
It’s time for a wider, more inclusive set of go-to Jewish resources.
Many young Jews are growing critical of arguments for Jewish continuity that demonize their families or futures.
Why investigating sexual harassment matters.
“They say I was grieving my loss as the only righteous woman; that sizzles my bones, as if I bought into that scathing myth we force feed our girls, that womanhood is scarce and to be monopolized.”
Reviewing eight nights of radical Hanukkah mini-zines
Sewing together fashion from other places and times to express a history of many roots.
For young working-class Jews stuck in abusive living situations, ritual observance can become difficult or impossible – a struggle often erased in American Jewish communities, where classism and assumptions of wealth pervade.
Our day of atonement is Judaism’s built-in ritual for calling ourselves in.