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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…
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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,…
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Counting on LGBT+ Jews for Shavuot
The Torah was never given to an individual, but rather to a nation.…
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Atoning for the Spiritual Abuse of Conversion Therapy and From Conversion to Allyship
Atoning for the Spiritual Abuse of Conversion Therapy
Rabbi…
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Coming out against hate for Shavuot
This weekend we celebrate, with pride, G-d’s…