Projects
I’m excited to be involved in the following projects in varying capacities:
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TransTorah
TransTorah helps people of all genders to fully access and transform Jewish tradition, and helps Jewish communities to be welcoming sanctuaries for people of all genders.
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Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
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The Anti-Eugenics Project
The Anti-Eugenics Project is an interdisciplinary network of scholars, organizers, cultural workers and artists working to understand and bring awareness to the continuing legacies and harm of eugenicist ideologies.
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Verdant Dreams of Olam haBa
From the innovative centers of Jewish culture and community comes the new Olam haBa calendar for the year ahead. This planner combines Hebrew, Gregorian and moon calendars in one gorgeous, sparkling, spiral-bound book! With new art, intuitive writings, and ritual offerings for each month. Plus, space to write your own dreams, plans and reflections.
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Bereavement Support Groups
At the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. Everyone experiences loss and grief in life. We believe that, in these moments, everyone deserves support and understanding. Many find comfort and relief having a dedicated time for reflection, exploring Jewish perspectives on mourning, and talking with others who “get it.”
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Trans Halakha Project
The Trans Halakha Project, housed at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, aims to curate existing resources that have been developed for trans Jews and by trans Jews, identify new areas of halakha that have yet to be developed, and finally to create opportunities for developing new halakhic literature and practice guides that speak directly to these areas of need.
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Transgender Spiritual Care Initiative (TSCI)
Sojourn Chaplaincy’s Transgender Spiritual Care Initiative trains chaplains, clergy and healthcare providers to advocate for and with transgender patients. The TSCI is a first of its kind training program for providers across the country.
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TransTexts
Keshet’s TransTexts explores what traditional Jewish texts have to say about transgender and gender nonconforming experiences and gender in general.
“Through disarming honesty in articulating his own embodied experience, relentless activism supporting justice for all bodies, and his engagement with Jewish wisdom that widens the way to encountering the sacred, Elliot is my body's rabbi. Elliot's questions, asked from a place of gentle curiosity and genuine compassion, elicited deep truths, some of which I articulated for the first time. I carried these ideas with me into the mikveh but more importantly, as I approached the water, I was briefly able to feel what I had been longing for--a visceral connection between what I knew of my body and what I felt being in my body.”
—Rachel Brodie, Senior Educator, Jewish Studio Project