Chloe Safier talks to her cousin, Sara Glass, about “Kissing Girls on Shabbat,” leaving Orthodox Judaism, and buying yoga pants for the first time.
Chloe Sherman talks to Lilith about her debut monograph and the intersections of being Jewish, queer, and an artist.
Evelyn Torton Beck and Lilith’s Alexa Hulse talk about what it means to be a Jewish lesbian, then and now.
An interview with Rabbi Becky Silverstein & Laynie Solomon, founders of the Trans Halakha Project
I had a narrow vision of what Queer Torah was, which was limited to queering the characters of the Torah, essentially imposing gayness onto our ancestors, for the sake of seeing myself represented in our narratives.
As Pride Month comes to an end, we asked six Jews who are also in the LGBTQIA+ community to speak about the interactions between their many identities.
Despite critics’ emphasis on the sex scenes, perhaps what the film really spotlights is friendship. We see how the easy, angelic intimacy of our younger lives gets shattered, not just by communal and religious repression, but also by that beast, desire, which brings with it exclusion, taboo, unspoken needs, anger and loss. The scenes that offer us access to the trio’s friendship–or perhaps, even, into their thwarted queer family–are the ones that showcase the rawest emotions, the best exchanges.
