Welcome to irwinkeller.com and Itzik's Well!
You can find out about me by clicking here. Find out more about Shechinah at the Art Institute and future (and past) book events by clicking here.
Or maybe you’re curious about Congregation Ner Shalom. Or about the Taproot Community of Practice.
Whatever brought you here, welcome. Explore around. I look forward to being in touch.
Irwin’s TedX Sonoma Talk – A Spectacle of Love – November, 2017
A teaching on the Book of Ruth as a ritual source for same-sex marriage.
A setting of Whitman’s “We Two Boys Together Clinging” – June 2026.
If you want to know more about my life and wild mix of careers, you could check out one of these articles:
Sonoma County’s Newest Rabbi Also Rocked as a Singing Drag Performer (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
The Sacred and the Profane (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
Kinsey Sicks' Drag Queen Turned Rabbi Passes On the Crown (San Francisco Chronicle)
Oath of Disloyalty (a poem-manifesto sung in haftarah trope)
Author photo by Adam Shemper.
Judengasse of Worms photo by Irwin Keller.