Why It Doesn’t Really Matter What You Wear to Temple

Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)
5 min readSep 11, 2023
Torso of a person wearing a dark blue suit jacket, white collared shirt, and striped tie
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The Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are approaching, and, like me, you might be staring at your pre-teen’s closet thinking, “This kid has nothing appropriate to wear.”

I advise you to stop worrying about it.

For 8 years, I worked with Jewish college students, and I heard far too many stories like these: I tried to go to

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Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi (she/her)

queer belonging. sex positivity. creative ritual. inclusive judaism.