Stories from my own life on diversity which have taught me about ignorance and efforts to move past it.

In preparing to apply for rabbinical school, I was meeting regularly with my rabbi. In one of our meetings he prepped me through a mock...

An explanation of why I am a Zionist who supports a ceasefire in Palestine.

A couple years ago, one of my professors died from an illness we all hoped she’d recover from. The whole college was in mourning over...

On Yom Kippur, we ask for forgiveness from those we have wronged, and we grant forgiveness to those who have wronged us. We consider this...

It has been a year now since the antisemitic massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. I remember exactly where I was when I...

Shanah tovah umetukah lekulam! A good and sweet new year for everyone. When I was younger, I thought of teshuva in the traditional sense...

Anyone who has been in love knows how otherworldly the feeling is: the out-of-body feeling of weightlessness, the in-the-body feeling of...

The government's attempt to roll back trans healthcare protections is personal to me. Between 2014-2015, I spent an entire year trying to...

I hate the term "brave space." I understand that no space can completely be a safe space, and most spaces in the world are not safe...

I've been thinking about something lately. I know I talk a lot about being trans. And some people who haven't known me very long might be...

I knew rabbinical school was going to be difficult. Ancient and Modern Jewish history, Torah chanting, Hebrew grammar, learning all the...

Ze'evi and I went to pride wearing our pride kippot, and I had on a Jewish queer pride flag. Throughout our day/evening, multiple people...

As I pack up my LA apartment to relocate to NYC for the summer, I'm remembering this time last year when I was leaving Israel and the...

Language that we use holds meaning and weight. We categorize things based on the words that we use for them. Without each of their...

Sometimes people ask me how things are going for me, with regard to me being a trans rabbinical student. And I really appreciate the...

A lot of people didn't know me before my transition, so not everyone knows that the name Ariel was given to me by my parents at birth....

I'm having some thoughts on some of the responses to the hatred brewing in the US, namely the two following ideas: no one is born knowing...