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Covenantal Listening (February 13, 2024)

The Burden of a Witness (February 6, 2024)

With the Secret of the One (January 4, 2024)

The Truth About Truths (December 27, 2023)

Longing for Dawn (December 19, 2023)

TDOR and Transcendant Comfort (November 17, 2023)

Out of One, Many (October 30, 2023)

Going Above and Beyond Allyship for Sukkot (September 28, 2023)

Joy as Hopeful Resistance (August 30, 2023)

Microaggressions and the Moral Imperative (August 16, 2023)

Loving Trans Youth With All of My Soul (May 11, 2023)

Emor: Extending Family (May 4, 2023)

Trans Day of Visibility and Shabbat HaGadol (March 30, 2023)

TRANS ISSUES

Transphobia Is Not A Jewish Value (June 20, 2022)

Speaking Up for Trans Youth (May 6, 2021)

TDOR ‘20 Honoring the Memory (November 17, 2020)

Turning Mourning into Action (November 11, 2019)

TDOR ‘19 Interfaith Message (March 26, 2019)

Advancing the Rabbinic Prescription for Transgender Health Care (January 31, 2019)

Wrestling with Mourning TDOR ‘18 (November 20, 2018)

Interfaith Call for Vote YES on 3 (October 31, 2018)

Sukkot, Security, and Transgender Rights (September 18, 2018)

Coming of Age as Gender Non-Conforming (August 30, 2018)

Calling Trans Folks by Their Names (June 08, 2018)

Cisgender Humility And Accepting The Torah (May 16, 2018)

The Torah of Action (May 11, 2018)

Redeeming Religion from Slavery (March 16, 2018)

Not Everything is as It Appears to Be (March 13, 2018)

I Am a Boy and These Are My Clothes (February 26, 2018)

The Cloud of Glory (October 4, 2017)

Transgender and Transcendent (May 26, 2017)

Answering the Transgender Son (April 5, 2017)

Reflections from An Orthodox Rabbi With a Trans Child (November 7, 2016)

Transgender Youth Acceptance and Tisha B'Av (August 1, 2017)

ALLYSHIP

Allyship and Rebuilding the Temple (August 2, 2022)

Counting on LGBT+ Jews for Shavuot (June 2, 2022)

Atoning for the Abuse of Conversion Therapy (March 29, 2022)

Increasing the Light of Allyship (December 15, 2020)

Allyship is not in Heaven (June 11, 2020)

Homophobia is the Real Abomination (March 4, 2020)

Taking Pride in the Parade (June 30, 2019)

Coming Out Against Hate for Shavuot (June 7, 2019)

Wanting to Get it Right for Pride (June 5, 2019)

Counting on Community to End AIDS (May 17, 2019)

A Passover Message from the Southern Border (April 19, 2019)

Shabbos as an All Gender Experience (March 15, 2019)

Antisemitism and LGBT After Chanukah (December 10, 2018)

World AIDS Day ‘18 Role of Righteous (November 30, 2018)

Allyship as Spiritual Practice (November 20, 2018)

Noah’s Ark: A Failed Ally-Ship (October 7, 2018)

How Goodly are Your (Rainbow) Tents (June 25, 2018)

The Audacious and Inspirational Gift of Pride (June 21, 2018)

Queer Advice from Straight Rabbis (June 15, 2018)

I'm an Orthodox Rabbi Marching with Pride (June 1, 2018)

One Straight, White, Cis-Gender Rabbi's Role as an LGBTQ Ally (December 17, 2017)

In Lakewood, Sometimes Corruption and Greed Get In The Way Of The Torah (June 27, 2017)

An Orthodox Rabbi's TuBshvat Reflections on Inclusion (February 10, 2017)

Rabbinic Responsibility for LGBT Jews

GRACEFUL MASCULINITY

Graceful Living (September 26, 2021)

Graceful Bar Mitzvah (September 3, 2021)

Graceful Inheritance (August 27, 2021)

Graceful Acceptance (June 18, 2021)

Graceful Takings (June 7, 2021)

Graceful Lightness (May 27, 2021)

Graceful Flags (May 14, 2021)

Graceful Fluidity (May 7, 2021)

Graceful Progress (April 30, 2021)

Graceful Love (April 25, 2021)

Graceful Rebuke (April 16, 2021)

Graceful Shame (April 9, 2021)

Graceful Offerings (March 22, 2021)

Graceful Optimism (March 5, 2021)

Graceful Companionship (March 1, 2021)

A Graceful Table (February 19, 2021)

Graceful Forgiveness (February 9, 2021)

Graceful Emulation (January 29, 2021)

Graceful Consolation (January 15, 2021)

Graceful Allyship (January 8, 2021)

Graceful Beauty (November 13, 2020)

Running with Grace (November 6, 2020)

Covenantal Grace (October 30, 2020)

Having Something Graceful to Say (July 24, 2020)

Coming Closer Through Protest (July 2, 2020)

Holding Complexity, Simply (February 12, 2020)

The Freedom of Control (January 31, 2020)

Charismatic Faith (January 10, 2020)

Responsibility as Redemption (January 3, 2020)

Rising with Grace (December 27, 2019)

Re-educating the Natural Order (December 17, 2019)

Becoming a Better Being (December 11, 2019)

Growing the Giving Nature of Love (December 3, 2019)

The Other Half of the Battle (November 29, 2019)

Noah’s Graceless Masculinity (October 31, 2019)

Our Father, Our King: Divine Masculinity (September 26, 2019)

Graceful Masculinity (June 13, 2019)

SOCIAL JUSTICE

A Second Chance for Accessibility (May 17, 2022)

Ordering for Humanity (March 10, 2022)

Reflecting Greatness on Purim Katan (February 14, 2022)

Tu BiShvat: the Winter of our Redemption (January 17, 2022)

Passover: Achieving the Ideal (March 26, 2021)

Sukkot and RBG (September 30, 2020)

The False Piety of All Lives Matter (June 25, 2020)

A Graceful Shavuot (May 26, 2020)

Esther and the Pursuit of Likability (March 9, 2020)

Communal Resistance for Elul (September 1, 2019)

Shavuot and #METOO (June 6, 2019)

Healing from the Affliction of Separation (April 7, 2019)

Purim, Patriarchy, and a Path Forward (March 13, 2019)

Building Sacred Spaces with/for G-d (February 10, 2019)

Building a Temple from Tears (December 9, 2018)

In Dark Times, Be A Light (December 5, 2018)

Rosh Hashanah: A Time for Divine Consent (September 6, 2018)

Hillula to Her Heart (May 2, 2018)

How to Create an Inclusive Seder (March 23, 2018)

Why on Earth are Orthodox Jews Opposing the Child Victim Act? (February 13, 2018)

DACA and Rosh Chodesh Shevat (January 17, 2018)

Faith Leaders Must Stop Acting As If There's No Preventing Natural Disasters (November 3, 2017)

Rosh Chodesh Rabbisplaining (July 11, 2017)