Jan 22, 2026 | Eshel in the News
by Nadine Epstein As a teenager in West Hempstead, NY, on Long Island, Oliver Paneth loved spending time at their family’s shul and was a popular babysitter in the Orthodox community. They also attended Yeshiva University High School for Girls in Queens. “I was never the girlie girl, I was way more into sports,” recalls [more]
Mar 28, 2019 | Eshel in the News
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony stretches to accommodate the new gender fluidity. Published by Alyson Krueger on March 27, 2019 in the New York Times. (Read this article online) Lion is a 13-year-old who lives in Brooklyn. The middle school student identifies as pangender, a term for feeling like you are every gender at once, and likes [more]
