Projects
I’m excited to be involved in the following projects in varying capacities:
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TransTorah
TransTorah helps people of all genders to fully access and transform Jewish tradition, and helps Jewish communities to be welcoming sanctuaries for people of all genders.
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Sins School of Popular Education
Sins School of Popular Education explores how crips find joy, build resilience, and stay alive during this time of transformation.
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The Anti-Eugenics Project
The Anti-Eugenics Project is an interdisciplinary network of scholars, organizers, cultural workers and artists working to understand and bring awareness to the continuing legacies and harm of eugenicist ideologies.
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Verdant Dreams of Olam haBa
From the innovative centers of Jewish culture and community comes the new Olam haBa calendar for the year ahead. This planner combines Hebrew, Gregorian and moon calendars in one gorgeous, sparkling, spiral-bound book! With new art, intuitive writings, and ritual offerings for each month. Plus, space to write your own dreams, plans and reflections.
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Rabbis for Ceasefire
We are Rabbis and Rabbinical students, from all movements in Judaism, and at this moment of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice.
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Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council
The JVP Rabbinical Council is a network of rabbis, cantors and rabbinical students that supports the Palestine solidarity movement and each other.
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Transgender Spiritual Care Initiative (TSCI)
Sojourn Chaplaincy’s Transgender Spiritual Care Initiative trains chaplains, clergy and healthcare providers to advocate for and with transgender patients. The TSCI is a first of its kind training program for providers across the country.
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TransTexts
Keshet’s TransTexts explores what traditional Jewish texts have to say about transgender and gender nonconforming experiences and gender in general.
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Disability and Climate Change
Disabled people bear witness to the risks and realities of climate change. We face the violence of climate crisis more intensely. But we also bring crucial insights for navigating climate disruption, for living with and adapting to a changing world.
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Cultures of Care
Cultures of Care celebrates people that practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways. Care is an essential, immediate and practical way to create belonging.
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UCSF Bioethics
An interdisciplinary community of clinicians, researchers, and educators addressing ethical questions in health and biomedical research.
“Through disarming honesty in articulating his own embodied experience, relentless activism supporting justice for all bodies, and his engagement with Jewish wisdom that widens the way to encountering the sacred, Elliot is my body's rabbi. Elliot's questions, asked from a place of gentle curiosity and genuine compassion, elicited deep truths, some of which I articulated for the first time. I carried these ideas with me into the mikveh but more importantly, as I approached the water, I was briefly able to feel what I had been longing for--a visceral connection between what I knew of my body and what I felt being in my body.”
—Rachel Brodie, Senior Educator, Jewish Studio Project