Onstage adaption of hit TV series about Jewish parent coming out as a transgender woman is set against fictional Jewish community center background

Cast is mostly transgender or nonbinary performers reflecting plot about Jewish family with transitioning parent in adaptation by creators of original series

Among the topics addressed are family purity and when to use a ritual bath, and how a trans man converting to Judaism should be 'circumcised'

New hardline government is raising disquiet among LGBTQ people, with subject of transgenderism already taboo for much of the religious community

Activists protest laws that would limit options for transgender children and censor discussion in schools, citing biblical adage that all humans are created in God's image

Now with garments on sale online, the Tzitzit Project is an art initiative founded to create tzitzit and prayer shawls for a variety of bodies, genders and religious denominations

Luke Tress reports from NY on secular studies in Jewish day schools and uproar over transgender yeshiva teacher; Diaspora correspondent Judah Ari Gross with an unusual TV debate

Instructor agrees to resign after community controversy, widespread harassment; school says parting was in an 'amicable and professional manner'

Speaking at an Israeli embassy Pride event, Rachel Levine denounces attacks on trans people and the insertion of politics into what should be a private medical matter

K.M. DiColandrea's story of weathering a family illness, coming out as trans and converting to Judaism strikes a chord, and readers donate to his grassroots student debate league