Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

While the mainstream still argues about homosexuality, many transgender and gender-variant people sit in congregations, serve their communities, marry under the chuppah, and otherwise go about the business of creating religious and secular Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza gives voice to this moment in Jewish culture. The contributors-activists, theologians, scholars, and others, both transgender and non-transgender allies-share for the first time in a printed volume their interpre...