Trans Day of Visibility Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, March 30, 2024 • 20 Adar II 5784
9:30 AM - 12:00 PMCBh & ZoomEach year at the end of March, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces. Join us at this special service and make yourself seen at our first TDOV Shabbat. Share something original so you can be seen (visual art), heard (spoken word or music), felt (textile), or tasted (with dairy/vegetarian food). Your piece can be freeform, or address a part of the Shabbat morning service — celebrating the physical, emotional, the beauty of creation, the power of love, or the exaltation of liberation. Or just show up in fabulous clothing!
Please help us create a lending library by donating books in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, specifically trans/gender nonconforming, specifically Jewish books! See our list of books we'd love to have. Please drop off at Shabbat morning service or anytime at CBH .
Memoir/biography
1. Becoming Eve - Abby Chava Stein. Chronicles her journey through transition, from ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to transgender woman
2. Through the Door of Life - Joy Ladin. A memoir of transition from the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox university
3. What We Will Become - Mimi Lemay. Lemay writes about her own journey and that of her child, Jacob, who knew he was a boy from age two
4. Blood, Marriage, Wine, and Glitter - S. Bear Bergman. Essays by Bergman, a trans, Jewish, polyamorous parent
5. Continuum - Chella Man. A memoir of many identities; Man is Chinese-Jewish, genderqueer, and Deaf
Fiction (adult)
1. Sarahland (Stories) - Sam Cohen. Cohen's 10 stories all center on women named Sarah, including a transgender Sarah who marries Hagar
2. Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg. Rosenberg re-imagines English folk hero Jack Sheppard as a trans man
3. The Blade Between - Sam J. Miller. A man returns to his hometown to help (no joke) ancient whale demigods and the ghost of a onetime lover fight (again, no joke) insidious gentrification. I've read this one; it's an absolute bonkers joy.
4. The Right Thing to Do at the Time - Dov Zeller. A trans-centered Yiddish-inspired retelling of Pride & Prejudice (out of print- linked to used site)
5. All the Things We Don't Talk About - Amy Feltman. A family saga about a neurodivergent father, a nonbinary teen, and the woman who abandoned them both
Torah & Spirituality
1. Torah Queeries - Drinkwater et al., ed. Modern, queer readings of the parashot (Rabbi Josh is one of the editors)
2. The Soul of the Stranger - Joy Ladin. Reading Torah and understanding God from a transgender perspective
3. Transgender & Jewish - Naomi Zeveloff, ed. Stories of the "first wave" of openly gender nonconforming Jewish people to take places of leadership in the mainstream
4. Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community- Noach Dzmura, ed. Collection addressing Jewish trans* and gender non-conforming peoples presence within Jewish law and practice.
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