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  • Y. Gavriel A. Levi Ansara: Confronting Injustice: A Jewish Model for Trans Advocacy (Parashat Vaera) on 27 Tevet 5768
  • Y. Gavriel A. Levi Ansara: The Gift of Safe Space (Parashat Terumah) on 6 Adar 5767
  • Dr. Caryn Aviv : Some Notes on Queer Jewish Parenting: Or, How I Learned How to Love Limits (Parshat Re’eh)
  • Dr. Caryn Aviv : Gay Pride, Red Cows, and The Cleansing Power of Ritual (Parashat Chukat and Parashat Balak) on 11 Tammuz, 5766
  • Rachel Barenblat: Returning to Mitzrayim (Parashat Acharei Mot) on 14 Nisan 5768
  • Zvi Bellin: Walk in my Laws (Parashat Bechukotai ) on 18 Iyar 5768
  • Zvi Bellin: "Hey Yaacov, Someone's Calling your Name!" "If it isn't Yisrael, I’m not Home." (Parashat Vayishlach) on 15 Kislev 5769
  • Julia Watts Belser: Sinking into Compassion (Holiday: Yom Kippur. Book of Jonah) on 10 Tishrei 5767
  • Rachel Biale: Miriam: Speaking Truth to Power (Parashat Be'Ha'alotekha) on 16 Sivan 5767
  • Rachel Brodie: When Gender Varies: A Curious Case of Kree and Kteev (Parashat Chayei Sarah) on 21 Cheshvan 5768
  • Rabbi Rick Brody: The God of the Spirits of All Flesh (Parashat Korach) on 29 Sivan 5770
  • Rabbi Rick Brody: Building a Just Society (Parashat Shoftim) on 2 Elul 5766
  • Alex Carter: The Gift of the Wilderness (Parashat B'midbar) on 25 Iyar 5768
  • Moshe Ben Chacon: Claiming an Unworded, Yet Holy Union (Parashat Chayei Sarah) on 27 Cheshvan 5767
  • Moshe Ben Chacon: Hide and thou shalt weep, seek and thou shalt find (Parashat Miketz) on 2 Tevet 5767
  • Moshe Ben Chacon: Opening the Window Within and the Closet Without (Parashat Shemini) on 26 Nisan 5767
  • Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen: Liberation and Transgender Jews (Holiday: Pesach) on 15 Nisan, 5766
  • Gregg Drinkwater: Observe That Which I Enjoin Upon You (Parashat Re'eh) on 25 Av 5766
  • Gregg Drinkwater: Singing for Our Lives (Parashat Be'Ha'alotekha) on 20 Sivan 5766
  • Gregg Drinkwater: "Queer" Tribes: Finding a Place for Alternative Families (Parashat B'midbar) on 27 Iyar, 5766
  • Gregg Drinkwater: Affirming the Sanctity of Same-Sex Love (Parashat B'reshit) on 28 Tishrei 5767
  • Gregg Drinkwater: "Queer" Tribes: Finding a Place for Alternative Families [REPRINT] (Parashat B'midbar) on 28 Iyar, 5769
  • Gregg Drinkwater: Joseph's Fabulous Technicolor Dreamcoat (Parashat Vayeshev) on 25 Kislev 5767
  • Noach Dzmura: Four Gemstones: The gravity-well of a non-binary doorway made from cursed wormwood (Parashat Nitzavim and Parashat Vayeilech) on 22 Elul 5766
  • Noach Dzmura: The Audacity of Rain (Parashat Be'Ha'alotecha) on 13 Sivan 5769
  • Noach Dzmura: Firsts in Liturgy (Parashat Ki Tavo) on 19 Elul 5768
  • Noach Dzmura: Amalek and The Good Soldier (Parashat Ki Teitze) on 12 Elul 5768
  • Noach Dzmura: Textual Identity and the (Non)Genetic Code (Parashat Kedoshim) on 28 Nisan, 5768
  • Noach Dzmura: Holding God Accountable for LGBT Marginalization (Parashat Vayikra) on Nisan 4, 5770
  • Noach Dzmura: To Annul Patriarchy, One Verse at a Time (Parashat Matot) on 23 Tammuz 5768
  • Noach Dzmura: A Little Bit of Soap (Parashat Chukat) on 1 Sivan 5768
  • Noach Dzmura: To Be Fed By Miracles (Parashat Be'har) on 11 Iyar 5768
  • Noach Dzmura: Days of Awe(some) (Holiday: Days of Awe) on 4 Elul 5768
  • Noach Dzmura: Finding the good side: A Portrait of the Priestly Class (Parashat Tetzaveh) on 10 Adar 5769
  • Noach Dzmura: Not a Deathly Hallows: A Year of Queer Torah (Parashat Vayikra) on 2 Nisan 5769
  • Noach Dzmura: Modern Midrash: Korach Retold (Parashat Korach) on 24 Sivan 5768
  • Rabbi Laurence Edwards : The Mothers of Redemption (Parashat Shemot) on 24 Tevet 5767
  • Rabbi Laurence Edwards : The Telling Alone is Not Enough (Holiday: Pesach) on 15 Nisan 5767
  • Rabbi Laurence Edwards : In What Will He Sleep? (Parashat Mishpatim) on 26 Shevat 5769
  • Rabbi Lisa Edwards: "The L-L Word" - Lech-Lecha (Parashat Lech-Lecha) on 13 Cheshvan 5767
  • Karen Erlichman: Ba'al Ha'Chalomot: Keepers of the Dreams (Parashat Vayeshev) on 19 Kislev 5768
  • Karen Erlichman: The Holiness of Judgment and the Power of Witnessing (Parashat Shof’tim) on 5 Elul 5768 [reprint]
  • Karen Erlichman: 'Til Your People Cross Over (Parashat Beshalach) on 15 Sh'vat, 5767
  • Karen Erlichman: Reflecting on Ki Tavo (Parashat Ki Tavo) on 15 Elul 5769
  • Karen Erlichman: The Holiness of Judgment and the Power of Witnessing (Parashat Shof’tim) on 2 Elul, 5767
  • Ari Lev Fornari: Bind These Words (Parashat Ekev) on 17 Av 5766
  • Ari Lev Fornari: Ya'amdu... (Parashat Vayishlach) on 14 Kislev 5768
  • Sasha T. Goldberg: Queering the Rebellion: Bringing in the Faith (Parashat Korach) on 30 Sivan 5767
  • Rabbi Seth Goren : Speaking Truth in This World (Parashat Matot and Parashat Masei) on 1 Av 5768 [Reprint]
  • Rabbi Seth Goren : The First Commandment Revisited (Parashat Yitro) on 19 Sh'vat 5768
  • Rabbi Seth Goren : Speaking Truth in This World (Parashat Matot and Parashat Masei) on 26 Tammuz, 5766
  • Rabbi Seth Goren : Silencing Abominable Language (Parashat Re'eh) on 27 Av, 5767
  • Rabbi Steven Greenberg: You Shall Be Holy (Parashat Aharei Mot and Parashat Kedoshim) on 8 Iyyar, 5766
  • Rabbi Steven Greenberg: The Real Sin of Sodom (Parashat Vaera) on 20 Cheshvan 5767
  • Rabbi James Greene: A parade of welcome (Parashat Beha'alotecha) on 15 Sivan 5770
  • Rabbi David Greenstein: On Gaining Access to the Holy (Parashat Aharei Mot and Parashat Kedoshim) on 10 Iyyar 5767
  • Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross: High Healing: A Purim Message (Holiday: Purim) on 14 Adar, 5766
  • Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz: Redeeming a Holy Spark: Coming out of the darkness (Parshat Vayigash) on 8 Tevet 5770
  • Igael Gurin-Malous: Eighteen Twenty-two (Yom Kippur) on 7 Tishrei 5770
  • Igael Gurin-Malous: Love the Stranger (Parashat Eikev) on 17 Av 5769
  • Igael Gurin-Malous: To Parent: A Verb (Parashat Toldot) on 1 Kislev 5769
  • Igael Gurin-Malous: Du Partsufin: Introducing the Allgender creation (Parashat B'reishit) on 22 Tishrei 5768
  • Rabbi Jill Hammer: Parashat Chukkat: Clean/Unclean (Parashat Chukkat) on 11 Tammuz, 5769
  • Rabbi Jill Hammer: Uncovering Joseph's Bones (Parashat Vayechi) on 16 Tevet 5767
  • Rabbi Jill Hammer: The Power of Embodied Love (Parashat Vayakhel and Parashat Pekudei) on 23 Adar 5766
  • Rabbi Jill Hammer: The Power of Embodied Love (Parashat Vayakhel and Parashat Pekudei) on 24 Adar 5769
  • Kadin Henningsen: PRIDE! (Holiday: PRIDE!) on 27 Sivan, 5769
  • John E. Hirsch: Nitzavim: A Memory (Parashat Nitzavim) on 24 Elul 5767
  • John E. Hirsch: Nitzavim: A Memory (Reprint from 2007) (Parashat Nitzavim) on 22 Elul 5769
  • Jo Hirschmann: On the Thirteenth Day (Parashat Naso ) on 13 Sivan 5766
  • Meir Hoberman: This Was Not the Year I Set Out to Have (Holiday) on 29 Elul 5769
  • Cynthia Hoffman: The Queer Community --Collectively--Comes Out (Parashat Nitzavim) on 26 Elul 5768
  • Cynthia Hoffman: People of the Question (Parashat Ki Tissa) on 19 Adar
  • Cynthia Hoffman: A Generation's Judge (Parashat Devarim) on 3 Av 5769
  • Cynthia Hoffman: To speak out without shaming the Other (Parshat Vayeshev) on 25 Kislev 5770
  • Marisa James: The Language of Blessings (Parashat Noach) on 2 Cheshvan, 5769
  • Marisa James: Kodesh Kodashim: Honesty and Holiness (Parashat Tzav) on 9 Nisan 5769
  • Marisa James: Are you a good witch or a bad witch?: Pharaoh, the Plagues, and his Mutinous Magicians (Parashat Vaera) on 27 Tevet 5769
  • Marissa Elana James: Four Children, One Question, and Redemption (Holiday) on 11 Nisan 5770
  • Marisa James: Birds, Blood, and Living Waters (Parashat Metzora) on 7 Nisan 5768
  • Marisa James: Wearing Our Hearts on Our Sleeves: Aaron haKohen, the Fashionista (Parashat Tetzaveh) on 10 Adar 1 5768
  • Marisa James: The Deuteronomy Dinner Party - As Many Chairs as We Need (Parashat Ki Tavo) on 17 Elul 5767
  • Marisa James: Out from the Mountain: Finding the Good Land (Parashat Devarim) on 6 Av, 5767
  • Marisa James: Granting Peace in our Land: Observing our Greater Shabbatot (Parashat Behar and Parashat Bechukotai) on 22 Iyyar 5767
  • Marisa James: Brother's keeper, take two... Esau and Forgiveness (Parashat Vayishlach) on 18 Kislev 5767
  • Marisa James: Thunder and Lightning on the Mountain: We begin to dream the God we cannot see (Parashat Yitro) on 22 Sh'vat 5767
  • Marisa James: Building God's Beautiful Bayit; or, Queer Eye for the Desert Mishkan (Parashat Vayakhel and Parashat Pekudei) on 27 Adar 5767
  • Jo Ellen Green Kaiser: Vows and Thou (Parashat Matot and Parashat Masei) on 25 Tammuz 5769
  • Jo Ellen Green Kaiser: Vows and Thou [Reprinted from 2009] (Parashat Matot and Parashat Masei) on 27 Tammuz 5770
  • Reb Kaplan: Lech Lecha - Walk Towards Yourself (Parashat Lech Lecha) on 6 Cheshvan 5768
  • David Katzenelson: A Well in the Desert (Parashat Vayera) on 16 Cheshvan 5769
  • David Katzenelson: Brothers (Parashat B'reshit) on 25 Tishri 5769
  • David Katzenelson: The fifth commandment (Parashat Yitro) on 19 Shevat 5769
  • David Katzenelson: The Wife of Moses, the Mother of Pinchas and other Midianites (Parashat Pinchas) on 18 Tammuz 5769
  • David Katzenelson: Extinguishing the flames (Parashat Lech Lecha) on 12 Heshvan
  • David Katzenelson: A Mandatory Donation (Parashat Terumah) on 5 Adar 5770
  • Debora A. Larry Kearney: Standing on the Other Side (Parashat Devarim) on 7 Av 5768
  • Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla: Beyond Stick Figures (Parashat Vayechi) on 13 Tevet 5769
  • Joy Ladin: Camels and Consummation (Parashat Chayei Sarah) on 23 Cheshvan 5769
  • Joy Ladin: Wrestling Till Dawn (Parashat Vayishlach) on 17 Kislev 5770
  • Chaim Moshe HaLevi (Marc Howard Landas): Isaac on the Couch: A Midrash accounting for the gaps between Vayera and Chayei Sara (Parashat Chayei Sarah) on 26 Heshvan 5770
  • Chaim Moshe HaLevi (Marc Howard Landas): Got MLK?: Mourning the Losses and Celebrating the Victories [1] (Parashat Shemot) on 20 Tevet 5769
  • Chaim Moshe HaLevi (Marc Howard Landas): “From The Look Of Love, From The Eyes Of Pride” (Holiday: Tu B'Av) on 15 Av 5768
  • Chaim Moshe HaLevi (Marc Howard Landas): Harry Potter and the Rainbow Connection (Reprint) (Holiday: Yom Kippur) on 11 Tishri 5769
  • Amos Lassen: Taking Steps (Parashat Ekev ) on 20 Av, 5767
  • Amichai Lau-Lavie: FINAL CUT: Circumcising Egypt (Parashat Bo) on 8 Sh'vat 5767
  • Rabbi David Lazar: Embracing the LGBTQ community (Parashat Naso) on 9 Sivan 5767
  • Rabbi Joshua Lesser: Parashat Emor (Every Body Worship [Reprint]) on 15 Iyar 5769
  • Rabbi Joshua Lesser: Every Body Worship (Parashat Emor) on 15 Iyyar, 5766
  • Rabbi Joshua Lesser: Live and Let Leviticus: A Call to Gay Men (Parashat Vayikra) on 4 Nisan 5767
  • Rabbi Joshua Lesser: Entering the Holy of Holies (Holiday: Rosh Hashanah) on 1 Tishrei 5767
  • Rabbi Joshua Lesser: Shavuot: A Marginal Holiday (Holiday: Shavuot. Book of Ruth) on 6 Sivan, 5766
  • David Levy: Nature vs. Nurture: A Story of Generation(s) (Parashat Toldot) on 4 Kislev 5767
  • David Levy: May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh (Parashat Vayechi) on 13 Tevet 5768
  • Rabbi Adina Lewittes: The Perfection of Imperfection (Parashat Chukat) on 7 Tamuz 5767
  • Tucker Lieberman : Liberating Foreigners, Together with Our Sisters and Brothers (Holiday: Shmini Atzeret) on 22 Tishrei 5767
  • Tucker Lieberman : Love Beyond Possession (Parashat Beshalach) on 12 Shevat 5769
  • Darren Lipman: Queer Nazir and the Twelve Identical Gifts (Parashat Naso) on 28 Iyar 5769
  • Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman: Counting My Genders: A Neo-Kabbalistic View of the Omer (Holiday: Counting the Omer) on 22 Iyyar, 5766
  • Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman: "And God Called": The Process is the Message (Parashat VaYikra) on 3 Nisan 5766
  • Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman: Circling Back (Holiday: Simchat Torah) on 23 Tishrei 5767
  • Kerrick Lucker: Revolution is the Easy Part (Parashat Mishpatim) on 26 Sh'vat 5768
  • Jay Michaelson: A Less Innocent Love (Parashat Vaetchanan) on 11 Av 5766
  • Jay Michaelson: Liberation from Passover (Holiday: Passover) on 16 Nisan 5769
  • Jay Michaelson: Into Life (Parashat Vaera ) on 1 Sh'vat 5767
  • Jay Michaelson: It's the Purity, Stupid: Reading Leviticus in Context (Parashat Tazria and Parashat Metzora) on 1 Iyyar, 5766
  • Rabbi Robin Nafshi: Interpreting G-d's Approach at Sinai (Parshat Yitro) on 21 Shevat 5770
  • Jay Stanton New: Fear, Perception, and Imagination: Grasshoppers in Whose Eyes? (Parashat Shelach Lecha ) on 17 Sivan 5768
  • Karen Perolman: 'Am' (Yisrael) Comin' Out! I want the World To Know, Got to Let it Show (Parashat Be'Ha'alotecha) on 10 Sivan 5768
  • Karen Perolman: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Parashat Korach) on 4 Tammuz 5769
  • Karen Perolman: Four Mothers, Four stories. Four legacies? (Parashat Vayetzei ) on 8 Kislev 5769
  • Dr. Sarah Pessin: Fine Lines, Laughter, and the Play of Twos: Living with Wonder (Parashat Ki Tisa) on 17 Adar 5766
  • Dr. Sarah Pessin: Jewish Ethics and the Call to Equal Opportunity Justice: Putting the S in LGBT (Parashat Mishpatim) on 29 Sh'vat 5767
  • J Simone Posner: Hashem and Equity (Parashat Ki Tissa) on 17 Adar 5769
  • Rabbi Amber Powers: Ritual Impurity: Signposts for Boundary Crossers (Parashat Tazria and Parashat Metzora) on 30 Nisan 5769
  • Vanessa "Vinny" Prell: Surely God is in This Place: A d'var Torah for Transgender Day of Remembrance (Parashat Vayetzei) on 7 Kislev 5768
  • Vanessa "Vinny" Prell: Community and Solitude: Rethinking Clean and Unclean (Parashat Tazria Metzora) on 2 Iyar
  • Vanessa "Vinny" Prell: Irreconcilable Differences (Parashat Emor) on 4 Iyar 5768
  • Andrew Ramer: Something Queer in the Vineyards (Reprinted from 2007) (Parashat Balak) on 13 Tammuz 5770
  • Andrew Ramer: Something Queer in the Vineyards (Parashat Balak) on 14 Tamuz 5767
  • Lev Raphael: Journeys with Acharei Mot (Parashat Acharei Mot) on 7 Iyar 5769
  • Martin Rawlings-Fein: No Sacrifice Needed: Modern Day Nadav and Avihu (Parashat Shemini) on 24 Nissan, 5769
  • Martin Rawlings-Fein: Saving Our Youth from the Crocodiles (Parashat Shemot) on Tevet 22 5770
  • Cantor David E. Reinwald: Doubling the Weight of Our Words (Parashat Shoftim) on 1 Elul
  • Rabbi Andrew Sacks: Sukkot: Celebrating Unity Through Diversity (Holiday: Sukkot) on 14 Tishri 5769
  • Michael Sarid: Apres le Deluge: Moi (Parashat Noach) on 6 Cheshvan 5767
  • Jeremy Schwartz: Balak and Balaam: Language and Knowledge, Speech and Power (Parashat Balak) on 8 Tammuz 5768
  • Jase Schwartz: We Are Family (Parashat Vayigash) on 6 Tevet 5769
  • Joseph Shapiro: Lie With Me (Parashat Vayeshev) on 22 Kislev 5769
  • Dr. David Shneer: History, Memory and the Making of Community (Parashat Devarim) on 4 Av, 5766
  • Dr. David Shneer: Liberating Ourselves (Parashat Shelakh Lecha) on 27 Sivan, 5766
  • Stephanie Silberstein: But G-d Said No: Why Moses Couldn’t Enter the Promised Land, and What The LGBT Community Can Learn From It (Parashat Vaetechanan) on 12 Av 5770
  • Melissa B. Simon: The Soul of Each and Every Individual (Parashat Pinchas) on 21 Tamuz 5767
  • Melissa B. Simon: Go forth to Celebrate Your Gay Family (Parashat Lech Lecha) on 9 Cheshvan 5769
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: The Bumpy Road to High-Drama Holiness (Parashat Miketz) on 28 Kislev, 5768
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: Fine-Tune Your Spiritual Hearing (Parashat Ki Tavo) on 15 Elul 5766
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: And Jacob came out... (Parashat Vayetzei) on 11 Kislev 5767
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: The Way of Strange Fire (Parashat Shemini) on 24 Nisan, 5766
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: Re(a)d Torah (Parashat Behar and Parashat Bechukotai) on 21 Iyar 5769
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: Reprint: the way of strange fire (Parashat Shemini) on 18 Nisan 5770
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: The "Y'all Come Purim" in Berkeley, California (Holiday: Purim) on 14 Adar 5767
  • Maggid Jhos Singer: The Peculiar Fiber in the Garment of Humanity (Parashat Shelach Lecha) on 23 Sivan 5767
  • Amy Soule: Who Would Moses Marry? (Parashat Bo) on 5 Shevat 5769
  • Amy Soule: Difference and the Service of the Lord (Parashat Emor) on 16 Iyar 5770
  • Amy Soule: B'reshit and bashert: in our beginning, all kinds of love were sanctified (Parashat B'reshit) on 28 Tishrei 5770
  • Amy Soule: Sisterhood through the lens of Rachel and Leah (Parashat Vayeitzei) on 10 Kislev 5770
  • Amy Soule: Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are (Parashat Bo) on Shevat 7, 5770
  • Rabbi Jacob Staub: Dancing at Sinai (Parashat Ki Tisa) on 20 Adar 5767
  • Rabbi Jacob J Staub: Going After the Unfamiliar (Parashat Re'eh) on 28 Av 5768
  • Ri Turner: A New Vision of the Scapegoat (Parashat Pinchas) on 15 Tammuz
  • Ri J. Turner: The Former Rain and the Latter Rain: A Queer Jew in Diaspora Wrestling with Tradition and Progress (Parashat Ekev) on 21 Av 5768
  • Ri J. Turner: Ushpizin, Shefa, and Choosing Openness Despite Having Been Forced Open (Sukkot) on 14 Tishrei 5770
  • Ri Turner: Sacred Spaces: The Tabernacle, Women's Work, and the Body as Sanctuary (Parashat Naso) on 3 Sivan 5768
  • Ri J. Turner: The Fear of God and the Guru Principle (Parashat Va’etchanan) on 10 Av 5769
  • Karen Erlichman Tutu: We are the Cherubim (Parashat Terumah) on 3 Adar 5769
  • Mijael Vera: Joseph: Liberation of a Soul (Parashat Vayigash) on 8 Tevet 5767
  • Rebecca Weiner: A Revolution With Boundaries (Parashat Korach) on 4 Tammuz, 5766
  • Alex Weissman: Blessings and Curses: What's in a Binary? (Parashat Re'eh) on Av 26 5770
  • Abi Weissman: So Many Ways Not to be Counted (Parashat Bamidbar) on 1 Sivan 5770
  • Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla and Reuben Zellman: To Wear is Human, To Live -- Divine (Parashat Ki Teitze) on 8 Elul 5766
  • Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla and Reuben Zellman: Created by the Hand of Heaven: A Jewish Approach to Intersexuality (Parashat Tazria and Parashat Metzora) on 3 Iyyar 5767
  • Chaim Moshe haLevi : VeAhavta -- And You Shall Love (Parashat Vaetchanan) on 11 Av, 5767
  • Chaim Moshe haLevi : Q-Ushpizin (Holiday: Sukkot) on 15 Tishrei 5767
  • Chaim Moshe haLevi : Harry Potter and the Rainbow Connection (Holiday: Yom Kippur) on 10 Tishrei 5768
  • Chaim Moshe haLevi : Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods (Parashat Ki Tisa) on 16 Adar I, 5768
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