LGBTQ+

Organizations

• Eshel – www.eshelonline.org – Eshel’s mission is to create a future for Orthodox lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals, and their families. Through its innovative and culturally sensitive programming, Eshel works with each individual, family, and community in creating a place for their LGBTQ members. Eshel envisions a world where Orthodox LGBTQ individuals can live out their lives in the Orthodox communities of their choice.
• JQY – www.jqyouth.org – JQY (Jewish Queer Youth) is a nonprofit organization that supports and empowers LGBTQ Jewish youth with a special focus on teens and young adults from Orthodox, Chassidic, and Sephardi/Mizrahi communities. JQY fights to ensure the emotional and physical health and safety of this population. Their goal is for all these individuals to know: You are a valued member of the Jewish community and you are not alone.
• LGBTQ Chabad – www.facebook.com/lgbtqchabad – A FB page for awareness and conversations about LGBTQ people coming from Chabad (not affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement.)
• Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network – www.smqn.org – an innovative grassroots movement that is committed to building a vibrant, enriching, and supportive community for an often-overlooked segment of the Jewish world: LGBTQ+ Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.
• Kesher Families – www.kesherfamilies.org – Kesher’s goal is to help families stay connected to each other – parent to child, sibling to sibling, and grandparent to grandchild – by providing support and guidance for family members of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ in the Orthodox Jewish community
• Havruta –  havruta.org.il (Hebrew) – Serving Orthodox and traditional LGBTQ Jews in Israel.
• The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. Trevor Helpline: 1-866-488-7386
• Bat Kol – www.bat-kol.org (Hebrew) – Bat Kol’s mission is to maintain a supportive home and a framework of mutual responsibility for religious gay women and their family members, and to promote education for tolerance and acceptance of difference in Israel with the aim of enabling religious gay women and their family members a life of partnership and equality in the Torah-observant society in Israel.
• Shoval – www.shovalgroup.org (Hebrew) – Shoval’s mission is to create a dialogue, raise awareness, and foster face-to-face encounters within the religious community in Israel with the goal that religious LGBT youth will feel that their school, community and home are places that embrace and accept them and that they will not have to choose between their sexual and gender identity and their religious faith. Shoval (Hebrew for “That He created everything for His glory”) seeks not to change the Halacha, but to take down the walls and prejudices between Israeli religious society and LGBT people and to provide tools to deal sensitively with those youth who need, above all, emotional support and acceptance.
• Comprehensive list, national and international – www.jqyouth.org/lgbtq-jewish-orgs