Joy Ladin
By Joy Ladin
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Life Accepting Transgender Jews Can’t Just Come From the Top
Both as a transgender Jew and a member of the board of Keshet, a national organization working toward inclusion of LGBT Jews in the Jewish world, I am delighted and heartened by the Union of Reform Judaism’s to making Reform Jewish congregations and institutions safe for and inclusive of transgender Jews. While other movements have…
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Life Make Space for Transgender Jews at the Kotel
illustration by Lior Zaltzman When Kay Long approached the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week, she was turned away because according to one of the Orthodox women supervising the women’s side of the Wall, Ms. Long was not a woman. In Orthodox Judaism, religious space is gendered space. Men and women are rigorously separated, not…
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘Assimilation’
For Irving Ladin, died October 2007 It’s different in the house of death. There’s family here too but no one crowds around the bed. They hang back in the shadows waiting for you to come to them. The mother and father you left marinating in their accents whisper their Russian version of the local dialect….
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘Letter to God’
You say because I’m always about to die, I am truly alive. My shadow stretches over fallen branches, my skin smiles under fingers of light, grass smiles along the path You say is mine. When You look at me, you see a child. When I look at You, I see a woman under a tree,…
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Life Birth of the Future for Transgender Jews
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of the introduction from the Forward’s new ebook, Transgender & Jewish. Buy it now on Amazon. This is a book about the birth of the future — a future that was unimaginable to me for most of my life, and that is still unimaginable for many American Jewish communities,…
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Culture A Rip in the Fabric of Mother
All Odd and Splendid By Hilda Raz Wesleyan University Press, 108 pages, $22.95. In the beginning, there is gender. “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl,” we say. That’s our genesis, the bedrock on which we build our selves and our lives. That’s why when the gender of someone we love shifts, our selves, lives…
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