Idit Klein is President & CEO of Keshet and lives in Boston with her family.
Idit Klein
By Idit Klein
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Opinion Made to feel unwelcome at Pride, LGBTQ Jews will not cede joy
Litmus tests on Israel shouldn’t shake the determination of queer Jews, writes the CEO of Keshet
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Letters Bans on drag performers are direct attacks on trans people
A recent op-ed centered cisgender Jewish gay men who might dress up in drag once a year at Purim
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Opinion As more states target trans Americans, Jewish LGBTQ youth need our help
Jewish institutions must use their platform to loudly advocate for trans youth
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Community A legacy of hope from a family of Holocaust survivors
The persistence of my hopefulness is a deep-rooted sense that, after Auschwitz, things can only go up.
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Opinion Racial Justice and LGBTQ Equality Are The Same Fight. It’s A Jewish Fight.
As Jewish leaders working for LGBTQ equality and racial justice in Jewish life, our emotions run deep this month: June marks two historical moments of liberation. Fifty years ago, LGBTQ people resisted a violent police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, sparking the start of the modern LGBT rights movement and signaling…
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Life Building a Strong Future for the Jewish LGBTQ Community
The posts on The New Spirituality blog are responses to Rabbi Sid Schwarz’s lead essay in his book, Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future (Jewish Lights). In that essay, which was posted on this site on May 5, 2016, Schwarz argues that any organization that hopes to speak to the next…
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Opinion No, LGBT Inclusion Isn’t Just Window-Dressing
Transgender Jews celebrate Shabbat at a California synagogue My friend and colleague Jay Michaelson’s op-ed “Include Me Out of This Jewish Community” calls into question the value and utility of “LGBT inclusion” in the mainstream Jewish community. I agree with some of Michaelson’s overarching points that being included in the mainstream without participating in fundamental…
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Opinion For Edgar Bronfman, Humanity to LGBT People Was Intuitive
Six years ago, I had lunch with Edgar Bronfman, along with the Samuel Bronfman Foundation’s executive director, Dana Raucher, at the Four Seasons in New York. The dining area was quiet and empty, and I was nervous. Dana whispered to me, “There’s Barbara Walters. Don’t look.” I was there to tell Edgar how much it…
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