Keshet Starr, at The Blogs

Apr 9, 2025, 10:24 PM

Freedom—it's the focus of our celebration every Pesach, as we tell and re-tell the story of our journey from slavery, oppression, and darkness, all the way to freedom. The Pesach story is an ancient one, but with modern resonance. Growing...

Aug 9, 2024, 6:59 AM

A New Tisha B’Av

The thought came to me in the very early days after October 7th–that this year, Tisha B’av will be different. No longer will we need to watch documentaries and read Kinnot to connect to our dark history, so distant...

Jul 10, 2024, 2:23 AM

Your Reaction Matters

New York’s Museum of Ice Cream is an Instragrammable wonderland, with rooms full of experiences, activities and photo-ops (plus kosher ice cream!). In one area, there’s a series of funhouse-style mirrorsâ€“look into them and you’re suddenly eight feet tall,...

Apr 5, 2024, 11:30 PM

Ringing in Freedom

There’s a tambourine necklace that sits in pride of place on my dresser. Its metal discs glint when the sun catches them, and it makes a celebratory jingling sound when you shake its tiny frame. My tambourine was given to...

Nov 21, 2023, 12:41 AM

Why the world is getting Israel wrong

Having spent over a decade helping agunot, women trapped in Jewish marriages, I have seen firsthand the challenges of advocacy, including the barriers to communal change. There are multiple social and psychological phenomena that lead to people condoning wrongful...

Oct 9, 2023, 7:42 AM

The Strangest Simchas Torah

My first inkling that something is going on comes Shabbos morning, when I go to shul. “There’s something going on in Israel,” a friend tells me quietly, a few feet away from where our children play. “And it’s bad.” The...

Aug 12, 2022, 1:28 PM

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Why bother with the story of Amalek’s evil every year?

Part of the 40-mile long Russian military convoy making its way in southern Ivankiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. (Maxar satellite image)

We cannot pretend that the epic battles of good versus evil are things of the past, or we won't succeed in fighting evil when it's in our midst (Parshat Zachor)

May 23, 2021, 2:27 PM

We ALL Have a Role to Play in Ending Get Refusal

Written by Keshet Starr & Emily Zimmer There's no question about it: It's not an easy time to be a Jew. Between the Covid-19 pandemic, the tragedy in Meron, and tensions in the Middle East, our community has been struggling....

About Me

Keshet Starr is an attorney, advocate, writer and speaker. Keshet currently serves as the CEO of Shalom Task Force, the nonprofit organization combating and preventing domestic abuse and fostering healthy relationships in Jewish communities. Prior to her work at Shalom Task Force, Keshet led the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, addressing abuse in the Jewish divorce process. Keshet writes for outlets such as Haaretz, The Forward, Kveller, and academic publications, and presents internationally on issues related to domestic abuse, divorce denial, and the intersection between civil and religious legal systems. Keshet was a Wexner Field Fellow and was named one of The Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36.” A graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Keshet lives in New Jersey with her husband and four young children.

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