In its weekend edition, Haaretz newspaper published an extensive article about gender non-binary people, introducing them to Israeli society and predicting “the next revolution,” that may completely eliminate the classification of people into categories of male and female. Ender. Non-binary You Tube star from Israel. The Haaretz article introduces the various definitions to the public: […]
A community theater’s gender-bent production of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” features cross-dressing performance of the Bard’s classic comedy. This week, Jerusalem’s own Theatre in the Rough company opens a two-week run of the Bard’s bawdy comedy in the verdant Bloomfield Park, just next to the King David Hotel. The nine performances, on August 10–24, are for all […]
Transgender activist Niki Sever thinks that gender division in sports is superfluous, even in sports that require physical effort. Because this division outright rejects transgender, genderqueer and intersex people- they are forced to retire from competitions. Mac Beggs, professional boxer. From leisure groups in community centers, through professional leagues, to international competitions, in every sport […]
In rural and peripheral areas in Israel live hundreds of LGBT people who have to cope every day with life outside or inside the closet in less accepting and open surroundings. Erin Toledano-Farajov, a bisexual genderqueer transgender woman, tries to explain life as LGBT on the periphery through her own personal experience. Erin Toledano-Farajov, who’s […]
Hayley Mandel, a queer, Jewish plus-size, non-binary model wants to change the world. During our conversation, Hayley Mandel tells me no less than three times that they want to change the world. After a just a few minutes of chatting, it’s clear they will. The model appears in Refinery29’s newest No Apologies Collection, an expansion […]
Yonit Zeidberg, a genderqueer woman who grew up until the age of 15 as a yeshiva student, captivated the Israeli audience on Tuesday in the TV reality music competition “The Next Star.” In a TV interview after the show, she talked about the special relationship with her ultra-Orthodox father who accompanied her to the audition. […]
Counting down the biggest stories on our website in 2016… The High Holidays can be such a public time for families- they may be in synagogue where the biggest crowd of the year gathers. Rabbi Ari Moffic, a mom of a transgender child, led a Keshet webinar in September about the inclusion of Jewish transgender, […]
A new Israeli web comedy series follows a group of queer women in their efforts to find themselves. The creators define the series as a combination of “Friends”, “The L Word” and “Girls”, and dealing with the quarter-life crisis. The first season includes 10 episodes, 5-minutes length each. The main character in the series, called […]
The family of Erika Kolosov from Bat Yam refused to accept her when she came out at 15. After being thrown out of her home several times and banished from it at 18, she moved to Tel Aviv and began to connect to her identity. Now, aged 20, she lives both as Erik and Erika […]
The High Holy Days can be such a public time for families- they may be in synagogue when the biggest crowd of the year gathers. Rabbi Ari Moffic, a mom of a transgender child, leads Keshet’s upcoming webinar (September 20, 2016) about inclusion of Jewish transgender, gender nonconforming, and genderqueer children during this time of […]