Alyx Bernstein, Author at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva

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20 Years of SVARA

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Crip Wisdom and the Torah of the Bees

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Remembering Our Gevurah: How We Learn with G!D

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How We Thrive: Torah from the Trans Halakha Project

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An (Im)Perfect Step

May we perform a conversion for a transgender individual for whom milah/ hatafat dam brit poses a sakanah?

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Finding Echoes of Real People in Our Queer Rabbi Ancestors

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Turning Our Dreams Upside Down

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She Shall Inscribe Her Hand to God

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Not a Rabbi, Not Yet a Rav

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Ask, And They Will Tell You: Reflections on the Teshuva-Writing Collective

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