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