Doorposts of Inclusion: Trans Pride Mezuzah as a Marker of Jewish-Queer Space
Material Religion, V-22(1), 59-85. [2025]
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This article explores the Mezuzah - a quintessential symbol of the Jewish home - within a novel context: the "Trans Pride Mezuzah." Ben-Lulu analyzes how designing a Mezuzah in the colors of the Trans Pride flag (blue, pink, and white) transforms it from a strictly Halakhic object into an identit...
“Casting Our Sins Away”: A Comparative Analysis of Queer Jewish Communities in Israel and in the US
Religions, V-13(9), 845. [2022]
אנגלית
This ethnographic study compares the performance of the "Tashlich" ritual in two egalitarian Jewish congregations: a Reform community in Tel Aviv and an LGBTQ synagogue in New York City. The author analyzes how this traditional atonement ritual is reinterpreted to empower gender and sexual identi...