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An edition of Balancing on the mechitza (2009)

Balancing on the mechitza

transgender in Jewish community

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"While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, many transgender and gender-variant people sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza gives voice to this movement in Jewish culture"--Provided by publisher.

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North Atlantic Books
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English

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Transgenderism, Religious life, Judaism, Jewish transgender people, Gender nonconformity, Jewish families, religious life, LGBTQ gender identity, LGBTQ essays, LGBTQ religion & spirituality, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner

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2010, North Atlantic Books
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Table of Contents

Abandonment to the body's desire / Rachel Pollack
Hoowahyoo? / Kate Bornstein
The trayf Jew / Chav Doherty
Transparent on high / Maggid Jhos Singer
Lech lecha! / Eliron Hamburger
Crossing the mechitza / Beth Orens
Queering the Jew & jewing the queer / Ri J Turner
Spiritual lessons I have learned from transsexuals / Margaret Moers Wenig
The god thing / Joy Ladin
Ritual for gender transition (male to female) / Catherine Madsen & Joy Ladin
Narrow bridge / Aaron Devor
Yaʻamdu / Ari Lev Fornari
Hearing beneath the surface: crossing gender boundaries at the Ari mikveh / Tucker Lieberman
Hatafat dam brit (extracting a drop of blood) / Martin Rawlings-Fein
Becoming a good boy / Max Strassfeld
Opshernish / Tobaron Waxman
Self-portrait as pshat / Tobaron Waxman
Re-mapping the road from Sinai / Judith Plaskow & Elliot Kukla
Baruch dayan emet: translating death into life / Lynn Greenhough
Intersexed bodies in Mishnah (a translation) / Noach Dzmura (trans.)
An ancient strategy for managing gender ambiguity / Noach Dzmura
Regulating the human body / Charlotte Fonrobert.

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296.086/6
Library of Congress
BM729.T65 B35 2009, BM729.T65B35 2009, BM729.T65 B35 2010

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p. cm.

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OL23989049M
ISBN 13
9781556438134
LCCN
2009052064
OCLC/WorldCat
437298761

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While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, many transgender and gender-variant people sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza gives voice to this movement in Jewish culture.

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