Why I’m Starting A Trans Youth Support Group

Why I’m Starting A Trans Youth Support Group

Mishkan’s Rabbinic Assistant shares how his lonely experience as a trans youth navigating a hostile healthcare system inspired him to start a Trans and Non-Binary Youth Support Group. I came out as Transmasculine in the Fall quarter of my senior year of college. After...

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Why I’m Starting A Toddler Shabbat Playgroup

Why I’m Starting A Toddler Shabbat Playgroup

Mishkan's Director of Development and Engagement on how her twins' time in NICU followed by months of COVID isolation inspired her to start a Small Group for other toddler families. My twins were born in October 2020. After 15 days in the NICU, they emerged from the...

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Sam’s BMitzvah: Small Changes Against Injustice

  Recently, I have been studying the story of the 10 plagues. Right now in the Torah the Israelites are being enslaved by the Egyptians, and they have been enslaved by them for about 400 years. In a moment, we’re going to read from the very beginning of the Torah...

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