How SVARA Is Making Talmudic Learning Accessible
My first solo outing as a new mom was to a gathering of queer Jews studying Talmud in a heimisch, if simple, room in Brooklyn. It was September 2019, back […]
April 1, 2021
March 23, 2021
February 19, 2021
Now Accepting Submissions Through March 15 For The First J-Pride Zine: ‘Out From the Narrow Place, Into the Wilderness’
Is there a connection between being in the closet and being in bondage in Egypt? What does collective liberation feel like? What do we need to get there? How does […]
August 24, 2020
June 8, 2020
Who The Folk?! Dudley Deshommes-Kohls
On this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast, we talk to Dudley Deshommes-Kohls, a black, gay, Jew who is also a nurse in the time of a global health pandemic. Mostly […]
October 7, 2019
Who The Folk?! Jess Braverman
What takes an attorney from public defender to women’s advocacy work? For Jess Braverman, it very much aligns to why she wanted to become a lawyer in the first place. […]
September 3, 2019
September 2019 Get the Folk Out!
Sorry, this one’s a little late & after the long weekend, friends. I’m guessing (hoping?) I’m not alone in September sneaking up on me. Last night, I saw the first […]
June 24, 2019
Who The Folk?! Noam Sienna
Why, in the midst of working on your doctorate dissertation, would you go and write a book that has nothing to do with your dissertation topic? That’s a question Noam […]
June 21, 2019
Jew Review: ‘A Rainbow Thread’
When I was in college in the late 1980s, I devoured the work of Jewish feminists like Ellen Umansky and Judith Plaskow. They unearthed for me the previously hidden voices […]
June 19, 2019
Cheers Minneapolis Faces Eviction
Cheers Minneapolis, the LGBTQ bar that was set to open on June 21, now looks unlikely to open at all. According to online records, the 1933 Lyndale LLC, the owners […]