Gluya
Speaking Openly About What is Hidden
In times of joy, sorrow, and in all the chambers of tears
Gluya Magazine – the home for open conversation about life itself – over 3,000 texts that illuminate the hidden within the revealed, the places where we are silent but are yearning for light, elucidation, and dialogue
Who We Are
Gluya Magazine is a special space that brings together diverse voices, opinions, experiences, and feelings, covering various areas. Gluya is an online library that is constantly developing and now includes around 700 authors.
At Gluya, we bring topics that are often outside of public discourse to the center of the table, in order to discuss and speak openly (in Hebrew – gluya), including: relationships and sexuality as they interface with living a halakhic life; preventing physical and emotional abuse; and dealing with challenges in different stages of the lifecycle.
This magazine is an initiative that grew out of the Gluya Center and its activities over the last fifteen years. The magazine sees its mission as “Speaking Openly about What is Hidden.” The magazine was established in 2019 by Rabbanit Sarah Segal-Katz, following years of experience as a halakhic decisor, kallah (bride) teacher, couples’ counselor, and volunteer balanit (mikveh attendant), alongside teaching and facilitating groups for open Beit Midrash learning and creative writing. In addition to its regular staff, the magazine publishes guest columns called gluyot (post-cards, a word play on the website’s name), written by partners in our work and writing.
What began as a website with around fifty pieces of writing grew in five years to a rich library with over 3,000 texts.
The magazine is a home for diverse content: in-depth articles, poems, prayers, lifecycle ceremonies, and opinion columns.
We talk about a variety of topics – from spiritual care to dealing with crises – always with an inclusive approach, that is open to dialogue.
Everything written in Gluya Magazine is an invitation to open conversation– a place to hear and be heard, to receive and to share.
We believe that the more diverse the discussion, the more productive it becomes.
In the magazine, you will find articles, poems, and prayers on relationships, Halakha, and sexuality, addressing different life stages: singlehood, engagement, marriage, sexual relationships, niddah, mikveh, body, abuse prevention, and fertility. For a broader and deeper perspective, you will find enrichment literature, enabling you to become acquainted with prayers and poems that engage with the magazine’s content.
In addition, Nahuga provides articles and suggestions for lifecycle ceremonies. Articles and suggestions include ceremonies and rituals for families, divorce, marriage (hupah and kiddushin), and mourning. The magazine also offers content for learning together and in hevruta (learning pairs).
The magazine is founded on the principles of religious feminism – commitment to Halakha alongside an understanding of each man and woman as complete creations – as well as appreciation for the democratization of knowledge.
Our guiding principles
Strengthening autonomy regarding intimacy
Creating a social discourse that is healthy and appropriate
Halakhic commitment alongside an egalitarian and inclusive approach
Making crucial knowledge accessible for all stages of life
Giving a platform to all the movements in Judaism
Discover our library:
Gluya Magazine is a growinglibrary containing a collection of over 3,000 articles:
- In-depth articles that bring to light new perspectives on life as a single person; engagement; wedding planning; nurturing the first years of marriage; the fertility journey through joys and challenges; growing into parenthood; coping with concerns about dangers and creating safe spaces for our children and ourselves; dealing with separation from a partner, pregnancy loss, loss of loved ones and friends, and more.
- Poems and prayers that echo all of the circles of existence – the spoken and the unspoken.
- Life ceremonies that accompany meaningful momenecial spts, in the words of Amir Gilboa’s poem: “In all the terrors and all the chambers of tears.” Nahuga is a special area on this website that deals with the lifecycle from beginning life to saying goodbye, with private and communal ceremonies, for the family and supportive groups.
- A special space for poems and prayers that were born out of our ongoing mourning since the events of October 2023.
Gluya Magazine includes around 700 authors, who each have different areas of expertise and a range of positions about the topics covered in the magazine. The mosaic created from this multiplicity of voices expresses a wide world of thoughts and emotions, reflecting a multi-layered and expansive worldview.
Each author has their own page on the website, which includes background about the person and links to all the texts they wrote on the website. In this way, the website benefits from diversity and at the same time provides a window into their creative work and a platform for their writing.
You can discover our authors on a dedicated page, organized according to their last name, and see how they embody the statement in the Talmud, in Brachot: “Just as their faces are different, so too are their opinions different.”
Gluya Magazine aims to provide organized and well-founded knowledge; to open gateways to sources for reading; to introduce you to people who are active in their fields and to present different opinions, reflections, and thoughts on various topics. The writing in the magazine is an invitation to conversation, and to disagreement. The more diverse the discussion, the more productive it becomes, fulfilling the commandment, “and live by them,” (Leviticus 18:5) in happiness and health of the body and the soul.
The texts in this magazine are written as a result of learning and experience, not as halakhic rulings or obligatory life instructions. Everything written in Gluya can be taken with a grain of salt and as an invitation to open dialogue, where one can hear and be heard, accept and argue. The more diverse the discussion, the more productive it becomes.
We accept text from different genres.
The magazine team discusses the content and quality and chooses the texts that best suit the magazine.
You can also follow our calls for submissions and send texts accordingly.
Digital Collections & Our First Book
Gluya's content is accessible online and enables movement between the different pages of the site. You can read each text separately or see the collections of content that we have made according to unifying themes.
Last year, we published several online collections designed as book. They enable you to turn the pages as you read them on the website. We created these collections in partnership with Rashut Harabim and many other organizations, mainly in order to provide some help with the grief following the October 7th attacks.
We were also privileged to publish Gluya’s first book, in partnership with the Kanfey Dror organization. The book, And This Child is Us, is a collection of poems, prayers, and reflections on ostracism and harmful social exclusion. Some of the pieces in the book can be found on our website, and you can also order the book directly from us – for individuals or for groups. Just recently, the Jerusalem municipality’s education department gave out 150 copies of the book to school principals in the city. Other municipalities joined them, as did other organizations and people from all over the country. Less than half a year after the book was published, around 800 copies have been sold, as part of an organic process of work on the ground, without any campaigns.
The Dinah Partnership is another one of our initiatives, as part of Brit Emunim. This initiative includes events and activities, throughout Israel and around the world, about preventing sexual abuse, in connection with the character of Dinah from the Torah portion, VaYishlah. The initiative also brings attention to sexual abuse perpetrated as part of the October 7th attacks. Events include learning gatherings, poetry, and prayer, as well as lectures, classes, and sermons in various synagogues. We published articles, poems, and prayers dealing with Dinah, closely following October 7th and in the year that followed.
Rosh HaShanah collection
101 Shofar Cries
Yom Kippur collection
What Has Happened to Us
October 7th collection
My Words Have Gone Silent
Sukkot collection
Home
Simchat Torah collection
Abyss Calls to Abyss
After the Holidays collection
The Green Abyss
Shabbat Dinah Collection
Ostracism and Bullying collection
And This Child is Us
Passover 2025 anthology
Liberté anthology
Passover 2024 anthology
Where are You for the Holiday?
Shevi'i shel Pesach collection
May the Sea Thunder, and All That Is in It
Holocaust Remembrance Day collection
What Will I Be if I Fail to Forget?
Dinah Gathering collection
You Have Me. I have You. We Have Us.
Partnerships with Organizations and Communities
Gluya Magazine works in the field of Israeli Judaism and serves as a growing library for all movements of Judaism, reflecting a pluralistic ideology. The content in the magazine is not necessarily tied to religious life, although some content deals with Halakha and its intersection with life. Significant portions of Gluya join a critical cultural mass of contemporary Hebrew creative work.
The magazine's partnerships are based on a worldview that recognizes how expanding circles of thought, conversation, and action broadens the mind and our ability to repair the world, and better reflects a variety of positions and experiences.
Would you like to partner with us on new initiatives that expand discourse?
Write to us about ideas that connect our areas of interest and your work, and let's talk.
Gluya Magazine is an expression of the Gluya Center’s world of ideas and content. Over the years, we have held numerous lectures, workshops, and training sessions for individuals, couples, and groups. Gluya Magazine also initiates and participates in various events that reflect our mission of "Speaking Openly about What is Hidden" in the most expansive sense, working together with organizations and communities that join this mission in a range of fields.
Throughout the five years since Gluya Magazine was founded, we have appeared on television, radio, and podcasts; written in newspapers; and been interviewed.
We believe that working comprehensively creates ripples and waves, and it is important to be present in various media simultaneously.
Would you like to support our work?
Gluya Magazine is a non-profit initiative operating under the Gluya Center (a licensed business).
We are committed to making quality content accessible to the general public free of charge, as part of our meaningful social action work.
Thanks to your support, we can fulfill more dreams. Your contribution will allow us to expand our activities, develop new content, and promote social initiatives.
You can support Gluya Magazine directly (and receive a tax invoice) or through non-profit organizations that we partner with to initiate and promote joint projects (and receive a receipt according to Section 46).
