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Gender & Sexual Identity

Throughout our lives as we explore the world around us, we also discover elements of ourselves.  For the LGBTIQ community the process of coming out, transitioning and experimenting with gender and sexual identity may come with public or private struggles for acceptance, some which may be difficult or painful. Through ritual we can honor the range of emotions and experiences along this journey, support each other to become our true and best selves, and celebrate what makes each of us special and unique.

Photo courtesy of Malka Packer

Prayer for Coming Out

Prayer to be said upon coming out or participating in gay pride events [more]

Found In: Coming Out

Tags: LGBTIQ

I Can Love All the Faces of God

An account of a woman coming out to her mother and commemorating the event by taking an aliyah in synagogue [more]

Found In: Coming Out

Tags: LGBTIQ

Confirmation of Reconstructionist Jewish Divorce (Patur) - Female Couple

A certificate for dissolution of a partnership between two women [more]

Found In: Divorce, Gender & Sexual Identity

Tags: LGBTIQ

Confirmation of Reconstructionist Jewish Divorce (Patur) - Male Couple

A certificate for dissolution of a partnership between two men [more]

Found In: Divorce, Gender & Sexual Identity

Tags: LGBTIQ

Blessing for Adult Milestones

A Jewish way to mark life’s passages [more]

Found In: Becoming a Jewish Adult, Retirement, Gender & Sexual Identity, Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life, Growing Older

Tags: mi sheberakh

Everything Possible

A beautiful song, a lullaby, about fully accepting our children and offering them complete freedom to become themselves. [more]

Found In: Bar / Bat Mitzvah, Welcoming & Raising Children, Leaving Home, Parenting Day-to-Day, Graduation, Gender & Sexual Identity

Transition Ritual

An opportunity to join with others and be witnessed in any life transition, both external and internal [more]

Found In: Month of Elul, Conversion, Gender Transitioning, Becoming a Jewish Adult, Endings & Beginnings

Tags: handwashing, LGBTIQ

Asher Yatzar (The One who forms)

A prayer of gratitude for our bodies: for men, women, intersex, transgender people and everybody else [more]

Found In: Gender Transitioning, Morning Service, Shabbat

Tags: LGBTIQ, yotzer

Contemporary Misheberach

Blessings for growth in modern language for all occasions [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals, Daily Prayer & Mindfulness, Saturday, Becoming a Jewish Adult, Gender & Sexual Identity, Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life

Tags: mi sheberakh