Tag: Civil Rights

A Spring Reading List for Shevat: Renewal and Equality

While it might still be January, the days are ever-so-slowly getting longer and many of us are looking forward to spring. The natural world will ...

Victims and Victimizers: A Social Justice Reading of the Haggadah’s Two Origin Stories

On Telling and Not Telling Our Full Story The Passover Haggadah promotes two Jewish origin stories. The dominant story is Avadim hayinu, which relates how ...

Why Are So Many Transgender People Converting To Judaism?

In 2021-22, I interviewed 45 transgender Jews from across the US. Around 33% of participants had converted or were in the process of converting to ...