Tzedek Center’s LGBTQ+ Rights Resource Sheet:   LGBTQ+ Rights Resources Sheet

Members of The Tzedek Center's LGBTQ+ Roundtable, including Hazzanim Sheri Allen, Gerald Cohen, Elisheva Dientsfrey, Riki Lippitz, Dara Rosenblatt, and Bob Scherr, have created and compiled a number of valuable resources centered on LGBTQ inclusion, affirmation, and celebration.   This resource sheet includes legislative updates, legal, healthcare and educational resources and LGBTQ organizations that strengthen and support LGBTQ Equality.  We encourage you to use and share them widely! 

Exploring Judaism: The Digital Home for Conservative Masorti Judaism:

•  LGBTQ+ Resource Page  includes a wealth of articles on Jewish topics, rituals, and history from an LGBTQ lens.  

USCJ Digital Resource Library -  

•  All Resources | United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: click LGBTQIA link to access 10 files on a variety of topics  

• Note: To access these resources, anyone can create a free account. If the user isn't with an affiliated congregation, select "Movement Partner" during the creation process.) 

Pride Guides: 

• Tzedek Center’s 2026 Guide to Pride:  includes a history of Pride month, and suggestions for incorporating Pride Programming into your synagogue or institution. 

• Pride Resources 1 Pager pdf: includes pride prayers, poems divrei Torah, and suggestions for a Pride Seder plate.

• 2025 Trans Toolkit:   includes Diver Torah, Movement Resources, Music, Ritual, legal, health and safety information for the trans community. 

• Jewish Pride Playlist Recordings  compiled by  Cantor Sheri Allen

Statements

• Heads of Major American Religious Traditions Issue Landmark Statement Supporting Trans, Intersex and Nonbinary People
• Rabbinical Assembly Condemns wave of Anti LGBT Legislation Across the US

Rabbinical Assembly Resolutions

2025: Dignity and Rights of Transgender Individuals
2020: Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
2016: Resolution Affirming the Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People
2014: Resolution in Solidarity with the International LGBT Community
2011: Resolution in Support of Equal Rights & Inclusion for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, + Transgender People

Rabbinical Assembly Blog Posts

• What Pride Means to Me, by Rabbi Gideon Estes (June 2021)
• Celebrating Pride in a World Far From Whole, by Rabbi Micah Buck-Yael (June 2021)
• What it means to Be an Ally by Pamela Goldfinger (June 2021)
• How the Rabbinate Helped me Come Out by Rabbi Ariella Rosen (June 2021)

Rabbinical Assembly Teshuvot

• Leonard A. Sharzer, MD "Transgender Jews and Halakhah" EH 5:11.2017
• Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins, and Avram Reisner, "Rituals and Documents of Marriage and Divorce for Same-Sex Couples" (an appendix to "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah") EH 24.2012a 
• Aaron Alexander, "Rituals and Documents of Marriage and Divorce for Same-Sex Couples: A Concurrence" EH 24.2012b
• Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins, and Avram Reisner, "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah" EH 24.2006b
  This teshuvah from Rabbis Dorff, Nevins, and Reisner was groundbreaking at the time it was written in 2006 and opened the door to the rabbinate and committed halakhic partnership for many people. Parts of this teshuvah, though, have been challenging for some queer folks, and may be for people in your community. The version linked here also includes a December 2022 author’s update regarding people who identify as bisexual. This update opens more doors for folks looking to live a life committed to who they are as well as halakhic Judaism.