Keshet
Keshet is a grassroots organization dedicated to creating a fully inclusive Jewish community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) Jews in Greater Boston and across the country. We offer resources, training, and technical assistance for creating change in Jewish communities nationwide.
Massachusetts Programs
   Social, Cultural, and Educational Events: From text study at a shul to a night out at a bar, our events build community, strengthen Jewish identity, and provide opportunities for GLBT Jews in the Greater Boston area to meet one another.
   Transgender Working Group (TWiG): A support and social group for transgender Jews and allies. TWiG also offers educational programs on transgender issues and fosters trans inclusion in Keshet and in the broader Jewish community.
   Organizing for GLBT Rights: From equal marriage to transgender rights, Keshet mobilizes Massachusetts Jewish communities to work for justice.
National Programs
   The Hineini Education Project
      Safe Schools training and support for Jewish educators to promote respect and honest dialogue by exploring gender and sexual orientation in a Jewish context.
      Community screenings and facilitated workshops of the Keshet-produced documentary film, Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School.
      Hineini Curriculum Resource Guide – A companion to the film for grades 7–12.
   Building Capacity for GLBT Jewish Activism – Training and technical assistance to emerging Jewish GLBT groups in other cities to replicate the Jewish Safe Schools & Supportive Communities Program and build local capacity. JPride in San Diego and the Jewish Gay Network of Michigan in Detroit are Keshet’s first two partners.
Hot Off the Press
SPRING2009
" Synagogues working to be more open to gays "
JTA, March 12, 2009.
" Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School "
Video Librarian: The Video Review Magazine for Libraries, March-April 2009.
" Responding to the Teshuvot "
Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, Spring 2009.
SEPTEMBER 2008
" Coming Out (Again) "
Tikkun, September/October 2008. Idit Klein, Keshet's Executive Director, reflects on her work for inclusion in this personal and political essay.
" Hineini Released on DVD: Boston Release Party Brings About 75 to Club Café "
New England Blade, September 24, 2008.
" Supporting GLBT Jews "
The Jewish Advocate, September 19, 2008. Letter to the Editor in support of Joy Ladin, the first openly transgender professor at Yeshiva University.
" Transgender Professor Joy Ladin Faces Life Back at Yeshiva "
The Advocate, September 18, 2008. National gay magazine cites Keshet's Transgender Working Group as one of the most prominent groups for transgender Jews in the United States.
" DVD release for groundbreaking documentary about Jewish LGBT youth "
Bay Windows, September 17, 2008.
" Homosexualite Et Judaisme De L'LAbomination A L'Acception "
Regards, September 2008. See the sidebar for a spotlight on Keshet in this Jewish magazine from Belgium.
AUGUST 2008
" Training educators, rabbis to welcome, affirm gay Jews "
Cleveland Jewish News, August 6, 2008. Read about our second national training institute for Jewish educators and leaders.
JULY 2008
" Out in Front "
Curve Magazine, July 2008. Curve profiles Keshet Executive Director Idit Klein.
MAY 2008
" Educators learn ways to welcome GLBT Jews into the community "
JTA, May 8, 2008. Read about our first national training institute for Jewish educators and leaders.
" Keshet Goes from Local Org to National Force "
The Jewish Advocate, May 2, 2008.
"Keshet Profile "
BostonSpirit, May 2008.
APRIL 2008
" Keshet is in Demand "
Bay Windows, April 10, 2008.
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