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transgender

Abby Chava Stein, author of "Becoming Eve." (JTA/Debra Nussbaum Cohen)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Leaving Orthodoxy: personal stories of gender and Hasidism

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman February 20, 2020February 20, 2020
Yiscah Smith, now a teacher at Pardes in Jerusalem, uses her journey to authentic living and experiences as a trans woman to inspire her students. (Photo/Courtesy Smith)
Posted inFirst Person

After decades as an Orthodox man, I’m now the religious woman I was born to be

Yiscah Smith by JTA and Yiscah Smith September 3, 2019September 5, 2019
Developmental and clinical psychologist Diane Ehrensaft
Posted inPride

Q&A: A gender expert who stands up for nonbinary youth

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller June 10, 2019
a young man in glasses looks at the camera
Posted inNews

What it’s like to be a transgender Jew in the military now

Josefin Dolsten by JTA and Josefin Dolsten February 1, 2019February 1, 2019
Yiscah Smith shares her story at Ner Shalom in Cotati, the first of three talks in the North Bay. (Photo/Shoshana Hebshi)
Posted inNews

In Sonoma, trans Jewish scholar talks about her journey to ‘authentic living’

Shoshana Hebshi by Shoshana Hebshi June 20, 2018June 20, 2018
Rabbi Elliot Kukla’s fantastical painting of Sylvia Rivera’s bedroom based on a photograph of the late transgender activist
Posted inCulture

Paintings show ‘magic and beauty’ in bedrooms of the ill

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 29, 2017December 28, 2017
Asaf Orr says transgender youth “have taught me what courage and perseverance look like.” (Photo/Trish Tunney Photography)
Posted inJewish Life

This lawyer fights for his ‘heroes’ — transgender youth

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller August 31, 2017August 31, 2017
Noily stand before a group of people speaking
Posted inReligion, Jewish Life

Beyond he and she: New expressions of gender arrive in the rabbinate

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 7, 2017June 20, 2018
Posted inOpinion

Trans resolution a great first step. Next comes the hard part.

Rabbi Elliot Kukla by Rabbi Reuben Zellman and Rabbi Elliot Kukla November 13, 2015September 14, 2017
Posted inJewish Life

Gathering of the transgender tribe set for Berkeley

by Rebecca Rosen Lum October 19, 2012May 10, 2017

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