Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Sarah Leavitt and Jonathan Edelman, Capital Jewish Museum

Episode 135: LGBTQ Jews in the Federal City

Step into the history of queer Jews in Washington, DC as Nahanni tours the Capital Jewish Museum’s current exhibit, “LGBTJews in the Federal City” with curators Jonathan Edelman and Sarah Leavitt. Through artifacts, photos, and oral histories, the exhibit looks at decades of federal discrimination and the fight for equality, the AIDS epidemic and national response, and the transformation of Jewish communal life locally and nationally. Highlights include a panel from the AIDS memorial quilt, a purple, sequined gown from DC’s favorite Jewish drag queen, and a pair of rotary phones that dial up oral history clips from local LGBTQ community members.

https://qa.jwa.org/podcasts/canwetalk/episode-135-lgbtjews-federal-city

photograph of a woman in a vest speaking at a microphone in a bookstore

Elana Dykewomon

Elana Dykewomon was a poet, novelist, editor, theorist, lesbian, and cultural worker. Her lesbian and Jewish identities and commitments informed and shaped her award-winning novels and other writings, and she made significant theoretical contributions to lesbian separatism and fat liberation.

January 12, 2021

Jewish Feminist Texts Help Me Get through the Pandemic

Molly Fraser

I will continue to access Jewish feminist texts for wisdom and fortitude when I need them.

Topics: Feminism, Jewish History

https://qa.jwa.org/blog/jewish-feminist-texts-help-me-get-through-pandemic

JFREJ 10th Anniversary Program Cover and Article, December 2000

Though the content of our mission is not specifically feminist, we have modeled feminist activism...

https://qa.jwa.org/feminism/kaye-kantrowitz-melanie

Unit 1, Lesson 3 - Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots

Assume the roles of Southern Jews participating in a Temple board meeting on whether or not to support Northern Jewish activists staging a protest in town.

https://qa.jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/jews-and-civil-rights-movement-whys-and-why-nots

Peace Movement in the United States

Throughout the twentieth century, Jewish women played a major role in American peace organizations and movements. Jewish women have also been in prominent roles advocating for peace between Israel and Palestine, both in the Knesset and with private organizations.

Poetry in the United States

The contributions of Jewish women poets to American literary history and political activism, as well as to the enrichment of Jewish culture and practice, are astounding. Many Jewish women poets write with a strong sense of social responsibility and a desire to create poetry that can shape reality, drawing on the Jewish teachings of tikkun olam.

Lesbianism

Lesbians and women’s same gender-loving has a long history in Jewish life, dating back to ancient times. Since the 1980s, particularly in the United States, Jewish lesbian thinking and activism has become a part of all facets of Jewish life.

October 26, 2007

Strangeness and Home, Rock and Water

Jordan Namerow

On Tuesday evening, I attended a reading (co-sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Archive) by scholar/writer/activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz from her new book The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. There’s a lot in this book—too much to discuss in one blog entry. In sum, it examines historical and contemporary views on Jews and whiteness and the complexities of African/Jewish relations.

Topics: Non-Fiction

https://qa.jwa.org/blog/strangeness-and-home

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Episode 135: LGBTQ Jews in the Federal City

Elana Dykewomon

Jewish Feminist Texts Help Me Get through the Pandemic