T4Torah
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Come and see: trans Jews reclaiming our texts and our God, and looking good doing it. Run by Lexi Kohanski.
As Judaism is becoming a religion of state power, who are the Jews working interfaith with Christians on how we can begin to face the fact that our religion has been/is a tool of violence, while insisting on Judaism's core values? Christians have been grappling with this a lot longer than we have
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As Judaism is becoming a religion of state power, who are the Jews working interfaith with Christians on how we can begin to face the fact that our religion has been/is a tool of violence, while insisting on Judaism's core values? Christians have been grappling with this a lot longer than we have
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It's my very great honor to share this exquisite guest post by Lexi Kohanski --
On her bottom surgery
and the ways in which attachment to the nuclear family model keeps us from seeing what holy community is in so many ways and places --
& what a person's value really might be about, actually.
On her bottom surgery
and the ways in which attachment to the nuclear family model keeps us from seeing what holy community is in so many ways and places --
& what a person's value really might be about, actually.
Unproductive Desires
On "Crushed Testes," Transition, Jewish Continuity, and Who's Allowed in God's Community. A Guest Post by by Lexi Kohanski
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's my very great honor to share this exquisite guest post by Lexi Kohanski --
On her bottom surgery
and the ways in which attachment to the nuclear family model keeps us from seeing what holy community is in so many ways and places --
& what a person's value really might be about, actually.
On her bottom surgery
and the ways in which attachment to the nuclear family model keeps us from seeing what holy community is in so many ways and places --
& what a person's value really might be about, actually.
Including my essay, The Web of Life Has Become the Monster! "Some of our most brilliant minds are using the halakhic tradition not only to excuse but to require the Gazan genocide... We cannot afford to let halakha...function as a tool for self-justification and violence."
✨ "Ya'aleh Zikhroneinu," our essay collection for the High Holidays, is now live!
Download and print it out to read over the chagim here: bit.ly/hl-reader-5786 ✨
Download and print it out to read over the chagim here: bit.ly/hl-reader-5786 ✨
![יעלה זכרוננו
Essays for the Yamim Noraim
Published by Halachic Left, 5786/2025
Contributors:
Rana Bickel • Jonathan Boyarin • Rabbi Caleb Brommer • Rabbi Vincent Calabrese • Rabbi Aryeh Cohen • Rabbi William Friedman • Avi Garelick • Rabbi Avigayil Halpern • Lexi Kohanski • Raphael Magarik • Zev Mishell • Ya’aqov Shenkin • Laynie Soloman • Rabbi Leead Staller • Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
Edited by Rabbi Lexie Botzum, Max Buchdahl, Caroline Morganti, Eliana Padwa, and Noam Weinreich
[Cover image: a watercolor background of clouds in the sky near either sunset or sunrise]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ckikhalnxxs637rezmm3ceu3/bafkreidi2gsi4tykvrafs2yb4q3idxchl27febeihknwvlakj2vnybqcei@jpeg)
September 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Including my essay, The Web of Life Has Become the Monster! "Some of our most brilliant minds are using the halakhic tradition not only to excuse but to require the Gazan genocide... We cannot afford to let halakha...function as a tool for self-justification and violence."
Cannot believe that in the year of our world 5875 we're having to make a feminist defense of **egalitarianism** but here we are.
Honestly the more interesting question to me is whether as feminists we can defend halakha. I tackle that in my response too
Honestly the more interesting question to me is whether as feminists we can defend halakha. I tackle that in my response too
This week's parsha is כי־תצי: it's a long list of laws including many related to gender, and the vehicle for @t4torah.bsky.social's guest dvar and rebuttal "A Feminist Defense of Halakhic Egalitarianism"
www.mishaholleb.com/5785-ki-seyt...
www.mishaholleb.com/5785-ki-seyt...
Ki Seytsey and a Feminist Defense of Halakhic Egalitarianism / כי־תצא און אַ פֿעמיניסטישע פֿאַרטיידיקונג פֿון הלכישן עגאַליטאַריזם
A response piece in discourse with "A Feminist Critique of Traditional Egalitarianism"
www.mishaholleb.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Cannot believe that in the year of our world 5875 we're having to make a feminist defense of **egalitarianism** but here we are.
Honestly the more interesting question to me is whether as feminists we can defend halakha. I tackle that in my response too
Honestly the more interesting question to me is whether as feminists we can defend halakha. I tackle that in my response too
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They're offering a class now w/a ton of amazing trans Jews talking about their favorite Torah (really incredible people, trust) and it is *free for trans folks* because TTS is wonderful.
Cis people are welcome to join, & please, feel encouraged to go, help them make some money off this program!
Cis people are welcome to join, & please, feel encouraged to go, help them make some money off this program!
Trans Torah for Our Terrible Times | The Torah Studio
www.thetorahstudio.org
March 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
They're offering a class now w/a ton of amazing trans Jews talking about their favorite Torah (really incredible people, trust) and it is *free for trans folks* because TTS is wonderful.
Cis people are welcome to join, & please, feel encouraged to go, help them make some money off this program!
Cis people are welcome to join, & please, feel encouraged to go, help them make some money off this program!