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Essay Lesbian-Feminist Midrash: Nice Jewish Girls Lesbian-feminist poet and scholar Julie R. Enszer blogs this week for The ProsenPeople on the seminal Jewish lesbian voices of the previous generation and the… Julie R. Enszer November 13, 2013
Essay Why Did You Marry When You Knew You Were Transsexual? This week, Joy Ladin, the author of Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders blogs for The Postscript on an unanswered question that many… Joy Ladin August 20, 2013
Nonfiction Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn, and Some Really Bad Dates Donna Minkowitz
Nonfiction Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family Joel Derfner
Nonfiction The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from aTransgender Perspective Joy Ladin
Nonfiction The Bridge to Hope & Healing: 9 Principles to Guide You in a Moment of Crisis Becky Schwartz Corbett
Essay October Mourning and Tikkun Olam Lesléa Newman is the author of 60 books including her most recent book, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard. She is blogging here today for Jewish Book… Lesléa Newman October 3, 2012