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Among the topics addressed are family purity and when to use a ritual bath, and how a trans man converting to Judaism should be 'circumcised'
Scholars and rabbis affiliated with Svara, the 20-year-old queer yeshiva based in Chicago, are working on the first collection of Jewish legal opinions written by and for trans Jews.
A transgender rabbi finds that many medieval-era rabbis were asking the same questions about Jewish law that she is.
A Rabbinical Assembly committee voted 24-0 to endorse language that does not invoke gender for people who identify as neither male nor female.