PinnedPublished inHuman PartsI Chose to Be Jewish. I Didn’t Choose Netanyahu.Photo by Robert Bye on UnsplashMay 14, 202419May 14, 202419
Published inHuman PartsStrangers Who BelongConversion, Queerness, and the Commandment to Love the StrangerJul 30, 2024Jul 30, 2024
Published inHuman PartsComparison Ain’t Gonna Magically Turn into CompersionA Poly Reminder for Those of Us Who Can’t Stop Being an AssJul 19, 20241Jul 19, 20241
Why It Doesn’t Really Matter What You Wear to TempleThe Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are approaching, and, like me, you might be staring at your pre-teen’s closet…Sep 11, 202310Sep 11, 202310
Liberation & Violence: Passover’s Queer Lesson of EmpathyPassover tells the story of the Jewish people’s enslavement in Egypt and liberation into the wildnerness. Often told as a tale of miracles…Apr 4, 2023Apr 4, 2023
A Jewish Obligation to Protect Gender DiversityI’ve always been impatient about inequality. I was a stamps-her-feet, doesn’t-sit-down, never-shuts-up kind of little girl.Mar 10, 20232Mar 10, 20232
Pride is not a rainbow. It’s a riot.Last weekend, our family of four attended Montclair, New Jersey’s first ever Pride Festival, the theme of which was: “Be You. Be Heard.”Jun 20, 202230Jun 20, 202230
I’m a “Woman Rabbi”: Bringing Our Full Selves to Jewish CommunitySermon for Shabbat Terumah, February 2022, at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York CityFeb 7, 20223Feb 7, 20223
Asking for Too Little: Taylor Swift’s All Too Well Better Wake Us All Up to Normalized, Sexist…Sacred prayer I was there I remember it all too well.Nov 16, 20211Nov 16, 20211
The Queer Freedom of PassoverPassover is my favorite holiday. It’s my favorite because it transmits a message of radical empathy intellectually, emotionally…Mar 21, 2021Mar 21, 2021
I’m having an Eeyore day: Parenting with Depression“Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh.Mar 3, 2021Mar 3, 2021
They’re Gonna Try to Kill Us Again; Let’s Be Joyful AnywayWhat’s this next Jewish holiday about? It’s what they’re all about: They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021
Rest the Little TreesU.S. capitalist culture prioritizes productivity over presence. This is no more evident than in the ways in which both work and school…Jan 29, 20211Jan 29, 20211
Inaugural Weeping, Inaugural JoyIt happened the moment those four hundred lamps, representing the 400,000 American lives lost to the COVID-19 virus, illuminated the…Jan 22, 2021Jan 22, 2021
Identity in the Window: Visibility and SafetyOur Sages taught: The Hanukkah lamp — it is a commandment to place it at the door of one’s house, on the outside. And if one lives in an…Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020
Published inAn Injustice!The Torah of the Future is Queer“The future is female.” “The future is Black.” “The future is nonbinary.” “The future is queer.”Nov 20, 20201Nov 20, 20201
My Family Voted against Me and I’m Supposed to be Okay with that?After the elections are over, your neighbors will still be your neighbors.Nov 5, 20201Nov 5, 20201