top of page


From One Land to Another
As I pack up my LA apartment to relocate to NYC for the summer, I'm remembering this time last year when I was leaving Israel and the...
Ariel Tovlev
May 31, 20193 min read
Â
Â
Â


Gender Neutral English and Hebrew
Language that we use holds meaning and weight. We categorize things based on the words that we use for them. Without each of their...
Ariel Tovlev
Apr 3, 20195 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Only One
Sometimes people ask me how things are going for me, with regard to me being a trans rabbinical student. And I really appreciate the...
Ariel Tovlev
Mar 12, 20193 min read
Â
Â
Â


What's In a Name?
A lot of people didn't know me before my transition, so not everyone knows that the name Ariel was given to me by my parents at birth....
Ariel Tovlev
Dec 4, 20174 min read
Â
Â
Â


Lessons From My Mother: On Hatred and Our Responses To It
I'm having some thoughts on some of the responses to the hatred brewing in the US, namely the two following ideas: no one is born knowing...
Ariel Tovlev
Aug 17, 20173 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page