Cantor Sheri Allen is the co-creator of Makom Shelanu Congregation in Fort Worth, Texas. She is a member of the Cantors Assembly and the Social Justice Commission of Conservative/Masorti Judaism.
Sheri Allen
By Sheri Allen
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Opinion My ancestors left their homelands to escape antisemitism. Will my son have to leave the U.S. because he’s trans?
Trump's executive orders scapegoating transgender people echo past persecutions of Jews
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Opinion Now it’s happened in my hometown: A Jewish perspective on this epidemic of gun violence
A cantor mourns the loss of innocence she felt as a child who grew up in one of the safest cities in the country
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Opinion I’m a cantor in Texas and parent of a trans child. My state’s assault on trans youth is terrifying
I am sickened by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recently announced nonbinding opinion regarding gender-affirming care, which states that medical treatments used in the transition process for transgender minors (ie: those whose gender identity does not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth) ought to be defined as acts of child abuse. I…
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Community Surviving the Texas winter storm — with yahrzeit candles
I’m a cantor, and I lead a small congregation in Arlington, Texas; I’m also a hospice chaplain. So given my credentials, I’m supposed to be good in crisis situations. But I have to be completely honest: I was completely unprepared for the devastating winter storm that hit us last week. Who could ever have imagined…
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