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Korach: Rebels vs Reactionaries, and Strength in Diversity (Numbers 16:1-18:32)

Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic…

Beha’alotcha: Queering Chronology (Numbers 8:1 – 12:16)

Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic…
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Nasso: On PaRDeS and Speaking Out Against Judgmental Literalism

Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic…
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Parsha Shoftim, Capital Pride, and Building our Bayit

This week’s parsha, Shoftim, describes four main forms of communal…
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Transphobia Is Not A Jewish Value

By Rabbi Mike Moskowitz (he, him) Reb Yisroel Salanter,…

Counting on LGBT+ Jews for Shavuot

The Torah was never given to an individual, but rather to a nation.…

Atoning for the Spiritual Abuse of Conversion Therapy and From Conversion to Allyship

Atoning for the Spiritual Abuse of Conversion Therapy Rabbi…

Coming out against hate for Shavuot

  This weekend we celebrate, with pride, G-d’s…