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Radical Jewish Calendar 5781 by Radical Jewish Calendar

Organized by Jewish month, layering Jewish and Gregorian dates, astrological happenings, holidays, and political history. Twelve months of political art, culture, and history made by dreamers, artists, and organizers who want to know what time it is. This project, in their fourth year, was dreamed up by some Jews who were tired of using calendars with advertisements for cemeteries as their only reference for Jewish holy days. This is a collaborative effort between friends and many contributors. All proceeds will go to artists and design contributors, which include farmers, rabbis, candle makers, facilitators, radio hosts, bodyworkers, rock stars, carpenters, Kohenet priestesses, organizers, and more. This calendar is a celebration of Jewish culture that is intersectional, queer, feminist, anti-racist, and that challenges and builds a Judaism and Jewishness beyond Zionism. Because you’ve always wanted to find out when Ta’anit Esther and the anniversary of the BDS Call are, all in the same place. Printed in the Pacific Northwest by union-labor.

hello again friends! i’m excited to share that my artwork “Feygele” & an accompanying poem from my chapbook - together a queer, trans love letter to Jewish demons - is representing the month of Tammuz in the Radical Jewish Calendar for 5781! 

as a contributing artist, i was allowed to choose a date in the calendar to mark in a way that felt important to me, so i chose to commemorate the August 3rd co-founding of this blog (and resulting community!) with the amazing @darkhei-noam in 2016. i can barely believe that this blog is 4+ years old - and our Discord server for LGBTQ+ Jews who study and/or practice Jewish magic & mysticism is 2+ years old and more active than ever with 80+ members (if you want an invite, message us)!

i am so grateful to each & every person who has been active here, and i’m especially thankful for @creekfiend & @kuttithevangu who together were a major guiding light on my way back into Judaism through the more marginal & magic aspects of our history. getting to know them & so many more incredible people through them changed my life. 

which is a long way to say that “Queerkeit Coven” is printed in a calendar now & all of you should feel proud! 

<3 Ezra

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im zeke im in my twenties and i am offline on shabbat. good week everybody

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are you Jewish, LGBTQ+, AND interested in the study and/or practice of Jewish magic & mysticism? we want to hear from you!

https://forms.gle/AvyVo3979zXNbaaRA

mod Ezra here - as you know, this community & the intersection of topics that brought us together is near & dear to my heart, so it’s been a goal of mine to try to understand that connection better in order to collect/create more resources specifically for us! this survey, which is mostly open-ended short written response, was created as a tool to help get bigger conversations rolling & collect some data for us to think about. there’s more info at the link about how the information will potentially be used/shared, but in short - it’s up to you if you want to be totally anonymous or if you want to be cited and/or interviewed at more length. 

i’ve got a couple of related projects in the works & possibly some opportunities for where this might go - right now i’m mostly interested in gathering info & keeping it open. please share widely & don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns about the survey! 

[image: three small bird-like angels that protect against Lilith, from a diagram in the Book of Raziel, colored with the black & brown striped rainbow flag]

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בין הערביים: between the blendings by Ezra Rose

a short collection of queer/trans Jewish poetry

something i put together pretty quick for Poetry Jam; February 2020 but i’m fairly proud of it! a condensation of lots of thoughts/feelings i’ve been having about queer/trans Judaism & Jewish myth/magic/mysticism, with a side of trauma processing (nothing queerer or more Jewish, etc.)

totally free, .txt version available for folks with screen readers. much love to you all!  - Ezra

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The Movement to Create a More Queer-Inclusive Judaism

The Nonbinary Hebrew Project joins a slew of other efforts making space for LGBTQ+ Jews.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on angels being canonically non-binary & the Jewish legal use of this status in a historic trans rights case!

(original thread)

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Come Read From the Torah! But First, What's Your Preferred Pronoun?

This summer we're bringing you daily posts from our sister site, Jewcy.com, edited by Gabriela Geselowitz. You can find more from Jewcy here. An increasing number of Americans are coming out as nonbinary: terms like genderqueer, gender-fluid, and agender describe a variety of identities that tran...

a nice article on gender-neutral language for aliyot! 

i know a few of us have experienced being called up with “na l’amod” (a gender-neutral “please rise” rather than the binary gendered “ya’amod” or “ta’amod”) and use “mi’beit” (“of the house of”) rather than “bar” or “bat” in our Hebrew names - it’s great to see more communities taking this step to be inclusive!