trans jews

making waves

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Trans Jews bring blossoming and vibrancy to our Jewish communities, spaces, rituals, texts, and traditions. Everything is growing and changing, and we are bringing unique and important leadership to enliven every aspect of Jewish life, for the thriving of all life and the flourishing of new ways of being everywhere. There's so many beautiful offerings that I can't contain in finite time and internet space, but please let me know what else to add and I will be happy to do so!

PROJECTS & RESOURCES

Trans Torah : a resource diving into the ways in which we can find ourselves in the text, with writings and scholarship by Joy Ladin, R' Elliot Kukla, R' Reuven Zellman, Max Strassfeld, and Micah Bazant

Trans Halakha project at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva
R' Becky Silverstein and Laynie Soloman

Books:

• Forty Years in the Wilderness by Yiscah Smith

• Through The Door of Life, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, and more by Joy Ladin

• Becoming Eve by Abby Stein

• We are God's Children Too by Rabbah Rona Matlow

• Balancing on the Mechitza, Ed. Noach Dzmura
   

Trans Jews Are Here Convening at CBST - 2019 and 2021

Speaking Torah with R' Gray Myrseth and Professor Joy Ladin

Shel Maala Online Yeshiva, check on Discord, classes here: https://www.jewishlive.org/shel-maala

Trans Led Hallel monthly with Simcha Halpert Hanson and Joshua Avishur on Facebook

The TV show Transparent, created by trans Jew Jill Soloway, has radically changed the way that pop culture engages with Judaism, trans folks, and family, as well as the visibility of trans Jewish identity and what it means.

Here are some resources to learn more:

• https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/195620/pfefferman-family-matters

• https://forward.com/schmooze/328308/how-transparent-is-reshaping-image-of-transgender-jews/

• https://forward.com/culture/207407/how-jill-soloway-created-transparent-the-jewiest/

• https://forward.com/schmooze/325700/the-real-jewish-trans-father-behind-transparent/

Other writings by/about trans Jews

• https://forward.com/tag/transgender-jews/

• http://transjewish.org/

Coming Out & Sharing Stories

• http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/opinion-im-an-out-and-proud-trans-jew-others-arent-so-lucky/

• https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/A-journey-to-finding-ones-place-459760

• https://womenintheworld.com/2016/02/23/finding-faith-and-community-as-a-transgender-jew/

• https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-god-knows-i-m-a-girl-1.5251380

• https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/209405/transgender-activist-leslie-feinberg-dies-at-65/

• https://forward.com/sisterhood/188013/hanukkah-and-transgender-day-of-remembrance/

• https://forward.com/news/national/335862/jewish-transgender-woman-named-white-house-lgbt-liaison/

Valuing our Place in Jewish Community

• https://forward.com/opinion/spirituality/342038/jewish-values-tell-us-to-back-equality-for-transgender-people-its-in-the-to/

• https://forward.com/opinion/180598/untold-stories-of-the-t-folks-in-lgbt/

• https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/understanding-transgender-issues-jewish-ethics

• https://www.myjewishlearning.com/keshet/the-jewish-communitys-obligation-to-trans-youth/

• https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/03/03/jews-and-muslims-defend-trans-rights/

Mikveh & Ritual

• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-jews-mikvah_us_55b171eee4b0a13f9d17f78a

• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/idit-klein/transgender-jews-in-israel_b_1122079.html

• http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/not-everything-is-as-it-appears-to-be-a-guided-discussion-for-passover-international-transgender-day-of-visibility/

Highlighting History

• https://forward.com/articles/144546/transgender-jews-may-be-nothing-new/

Check out Joy Ladin's resource list here: https://joyladin.wordpress.com/trans-and-jewish-identity/