Jewish Progress Pride Flag (Keshet)

Overview

Keshet distributes this design from a page headed LGBTQ+ Jewish Pride Signs, introduced as “a collection of fun LGBTQ+ Jewish Pride signs” with the invitation “Click on an image to download your favorite Pride sign as a printable PDF!” The collection is mostly text signs; four of its items are flag-shaped, each applying a Jewish or kosher mark to an existing flag and carrying the Keshet wordmark. The Star of David on the rainbow and Bear signs is drawn as an outline, so the flag shows through it. ^[1] Three of them are older than this one: a six-stripe rainbow sign with a white Star of David and a rainbow sign charged with the circled-K kosher certification mark, both archived from Keshet’s server on 23 December 2019, and a Bear Pride sign carrying the same star, on the page by 25 May 2022. ^[2][9] Those three are distributed as vector PDFs laid out on a 17 by 11 inch page, tabloid size in landscape, which is how Keshet intends them to be produced: printed, not sewn. ^[7][8]

This design is distributed differently, as a 1,772 by 1,181 pixel PNG on the same page rather than as a printable PDF. ^[2]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

LGBTQ+ Jews

Language Context

Keshet, קשת, means both “rainbow” and “bow” in Hebrew, and the organization’s wordmark sets the name in Hebrew script beneath the Latin. ^[10]

Religious Context

Jewish

National Context

United States (the publishing organization’s)

Keshet distributes the designs as files to be printed and carried, and asks that they be printed in landscape, on white, and in full colour. ^[3]

Creators

Origin

Digital Origin

Published on keshetonline.org as downloadable printable files

Origin Type

organizational

Physical Origin Status

Not documented

Published digitally by an American organization. No site of design has been documented, so no place is plotted for this record.

Keshet is an American organization and publishes the designs digitally on its own site, so the United States is the organizational and national context of the publication. Where the artwork was made is not documented. Keshet’s national office is in Newton, Massachusetts, but a publisher’s address does not establish where an unnamed designer drew a graphic, and no source places the work. ^[1][10]

Dates & Chronology

First documented publication

May 28, 2024

Documented publication

Published by 28 May 2024; carried into Keshet’s Pride 2026 packet

Creation Bounds

Keshet’s LGBTQ+ Jewish Pride Signs page carries the date 25 May 2023, and the Wikimedia Commons copy of this design repeats it. ^[1][4] The page’s own history does not support that date for this artwork. Archived captures show the page dated 5 June 2019 as late as 29 May 2023 and 25 May 2023 from December 2023 onward, so the date was applied to an existing page. The Progress-based design is absent from the captures of 8 December 2023, 29 January 2024 and 14 February 2024, and present in the capture of 28 May 2024; Keshet’s server reports the file’s last modification as 16 May 2024. ^[2] The design was therefore added to a page whose stated date precedes it, and 25 May 2023 dates the page rather than the artwork. When the artwork was drawn, and by whom, is not documented.

Keshet distributes the designs itself and asks that they be used in Pride celebrations. No use away from that distribution has been documented, and no manufactured flag has been located. ^[1][3]

Keshet’s Pride 2026 Digital Resource Packet carries this design forward and adds to it. The resource page publishing the packet is dated 21 April 2026. ^[3] Two different packet files sit behind that page. The one the page links was made on 28 April 2026 and runs to twelve pages; the one at the June address runs to nineteen and was made on 9 June 2026. Both are labelled V2. ^[3]

Three items across those packets belong to this family: a freestanding six-pointed sign filled with the Progress Pride composition; a rectangular design with the nested Stars of David and no intersex circle; and a separate rectangular intersex-inclusive design carrying the Intersex Flag’s purple ring on a yellow disc inside an enlarged white Star of David. The April packet carries the star sign and the intersex-inclusive design; the non-intersex rectangular design appears only in the June one. ^[3]

The intersex-inclusive design is not a replacement for the other and is not the other with a circle added. Its star is rebuilt: where this design nests five stars of comparable weight, the intersex version enlarges the white star into a broad field and reduces the pink, light blue, brown and black to borders around it, sets the whole device further into the field, and is drawn at a different proportion. Sampled on a matched grid, the two artworks differ across about a third of the flag. Keshet’s own file for it is 2,560 by 1,536 pixels and carries its own rainbow values, its purple measuring #65338A against this design’s #922D8B. ^[3][5]

The non-intersex rectangular design in the June packet is this artwork carried forward: sampled the same way, the two agree to within a fraction of a level per channel, with the wordmark reset slightly at the fly. ^[3]

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Progress Pride Flag

Related flags

International Bear Brotherhood Flag, Intersex Pride Flag, Jewish Gay Pride Flag

Sibling flags

Indigiqueer / Two-Spirit Flag (cedar-maw), Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag, Sego Belonging Flag, Two-Spirit Progress Pride Flag, Inclusive Diversity Pride Flag (TransIphis, 2022), Utopian Pride Flag #6 (2040 Progress Flag)

This design is an organizational adaptation of Daniel Quasar’s 2018 Progress Pride Flag. It keeps the six-stripe rainbow field and the chevron’s white, pink, light blue, brown and black sequence, redrawing the chevron as nested Stars of David that point into the field from the hoist. Keshet publishes no statement of the relationship; it is read from the design. ^[1]

Its companions in the same collection apply Jewish marks to other flags: the six-stripe Rainbow Pride Flag with a white Star of David, the same rainbow flag with the circled-K kosher certification mark, and the colour field of Craig Byrnes’s Bear Brotherhood Flag, without its bear-paw canton, with the same star. They are same-series companions rather than descendants of each other, and three of the four are older than this one. ^[1][2]

The rainbow companion reproduces a combination that circulated long before Keshet published it: a rainbow flag charged with a Star of David, documented in this archive as the Jewish Gay Pride Flag. Keshet’s is a later branded version of that combination, not its origin. ^[1]

The 2026 intersex-inclusive design is a later member of the same family rather than a child of this one, since it rebuilds the device rather than adding to it. It carries the yellow disc and purple ring of Morgan Carpenter’s 2013 Intersex Flag, and so invites comparison with Valentino Vecchietti’s 2021 Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag, which combines the same two sources. Shared constituents are not documented influence, and no source establishes that either design influenced the other. ^[3][6]

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 7 records across 6 generations.

Ancestors -5

Original Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestors -4

Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestors -3

Rainbow Pride Flag

Ancestors -2

Transgender Pride Flag, Philadelphia Pride Flag

Ancestor

Progress Pride Flag

This record

Jewish Progress Pride Flag (Keshet)

Colors & Symbolism

The design combines Jewish identity through the Magen David with the visual language of the Progress Pride Flag. Keshet publishes no element-by-element symbolism for it or for its companions: the rainbow, Bear, Progress, transgender, racial-inclusion and intersex elements carry the associations established by the flags they are taken from, and the wordmark identifies the publisher. ^[1][3] Keshet states its purpose broadly rather than per design, as working for LGBTQ+ equality and belonging in Jewish life. ^[10]

Nested Stars of David at the hoist

Occupy the position of the Progress Pride Flag’s chevron and carry its colours in the same order. Those meanings belong to the source flag; Keshet assigns none, and no meaning is published for the number of stars, their nesting or the six points.

Keshet wordmark at the lower fly

Identifies the publishing organization, in Latin and Hebrew script. Keshet asks that it not be removed or altered.

No meaning has been assigned by Keshet in any source read. Meanings associated with the parent flags are recorded in those flags’ own entries and are not restated here as Keshet’s intent.

Keshet publishes no colour values, so nothing here is a Keshet specification. These are the dominant flat fills measured from the file it distributes. The companion signs differ: the older rainbow, kosher and Bear signs are vector PDFs whose colours are set in CMYK rather than as hex values, and the 2026 intersex-inclusive design is drawn with its own rainbow and purple values rather than these. Those figures are recorded with the images they belong to. ^[7][8][3]

Design

Aspect Ratio

Varies by artifact

Ratio Notes

No flag specification has been published. The proportions below belong to the files Keshet distributes. This design’s file is 1,772 by 1,181 pixels, a ratio of 3:2. The 2026 intersex-inclusive design is 2,560 by 1,536 in Keshet’s own file, exactly 5:3, and 1,565 by 1,042 in the copy on Wikimedia Commons, close to 3:2. The 2026 non-intersex rectangular artwork inside the packet is 1,170 by 780, exactly 3:2, and the freestanding star sign is 1,282 by 991. The three older companion signs are vector PDFs on a 1,224 by 792 point page, 17 by 11 inches, with the flag artwork occupying 1,122 by 726 points, a ratio of about 1.55. ^{[4][5][6][3][7][8]}

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

6

Layout

horizontal_stripes_with_hoist_device

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple

Additional Symbols

Nested Stars of David at the hoist, Keshet wordmark at the lower fly, in Latin and Hebrew script

Six horizontal rainbow stripes. At the hoist, five nested Star of David outlines in white, pink, light blue, brown and black, the outermost running off the top, bottom and hoist edges so that only its fly-side points complete, giving the forward movement of the Progress Flag’s chevron. The five stars are of comparable weight, and the white one at the centre is the smallest. The Keshet wordmark sits in the lower fly.

The 2026 intersex-inclusive design keeps that colour sequence but rebuilds the device: the white star becomes a broad field holding the Intersex Flag’s purple ring on a yellow disc, the four coloured stars become borders around it, and the whole sits further into the field. The freestanding 2026 companion is a single six-pointed star filled with the Progress composition, the chevron running through it point to point, on a white ground; it is a sign, not a rectangular flag. ^[3]

Keshet distributes these as files for printing. Its 2026 guidance asks that designs be printed in landscape, on a white background, and in full colour. ^[3]

File and production provenance. The 2026 packet PDFs were produced in Canva from a PowerPoint file, and their document metadata records Ezra Stanley as author, with creation dates of 28 April and 9 June 2026. That describes the making of those documents, not the authorship of the designs inside them: the same metadata sits on packet pages carrying artwork that predates the file by years. ^[3] The copies of this design and of the 2026 intersex-inclusive design on Wikimedia Commons were uploaded on 8 June 2026 by the Commons user Gimelthedog. An uploader is not a designer. ^[4][6]

A Progress Pride Flag with the hoist chevron redrawn as nested Stars of David, and the Keshet wordmark at the lower fly.

Usage & Adoption

Organizations

Keshet

Geographic Usage

United States

Online Usage

keshetonline.org, Wikimedia Commons

Current Status

Published by Keshet; no independent use documented

Keshet publishes the designs for use at Pride celebrations and carried this one into its Pride 2026 packet. No use by anyone other than the publisher has been documented. Publication by an organization is not evidence of adoption. ^[1][3]

Image Archive

The older signs, 2019–2022

The Progress-based design, 2024

The Pride 2026 packet

Discourse & Debates

Common misidentifications

• Keshet calls the collection signs, not flags, and distributes it as printable files. The design is a complete flag-format composition and is indexed here as a flag-design artifact, under the archive’s own descriptive title; no physical flag manufacture or use is documented. ^[1]
• The Wikimedia Commons record for this design describes it as including “elements of the Rainbow Pride Flag, the Progress Pride Flag, the Intersex Pride Flag, and the Star of David”. The artwork carries no intersex element. The description appears to have been carried across from Keshet’s separate intersex-inclusive design, and the source image controls. ^[4][6]
• The later Jewish Gay, Jewish Pansexuality, Jewish Polyamory and Jewish Asexual designs in this archive are separate records and are not Keshet designs.

Keshet heads the collection LGBTQ+ Jewish Pride Signs and files it under “Printable Signs and Stickers”. “Jewish Progress Pride Flag” is the archive’s descriptive title for a flag-shaped printable design, not a title Keshet supplies, and neither “Keshet Jewish Pride Flag” nor “LGBTQ+ Jewish Pride Flag (Keshet)” appears on the source page; none is listed as an alternate name. Keshet’s own filename for the 2026 intersex-inclusive design is Updated Jewish Pride Flag. ^[1][5]

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

Keshet’s published file

• The Progress-based printable design, at Keshet’s published size of 1,772 by 1,181 pixels. ^[4][2] · Credit: KeshetRights Keshet invites readers to download and print the signs and states no open-content licence on that page. Wikimedia Commons hosts a copy under a public-domain assessment on the ground that the shapes are too simple for copyright, and flags it as carrying trademark restrictions; that assessment is not a licence statement by Keshet, and the Keshet wordmark is a trademark whatever the shapes are.
• Credit: KeshetRights Published by Keshet for download and printing. No licence is named on the signs page.
• Credit: KeshetRights Published by Keshet for download and printing. No licence is named on the signs page.
• Credit: Keshet, via Wikimedia CommonsRights From Keshet’s Pride 2026 packet, which invites use in Pride 2026 celebrations under stated conditions: keep the logo and web address, do not warp or recolour, print in landscape, on white, in full colour. Hosted on Commons under a public-domain assessment and flagged there as trademarked; a later copy rather than Keshet’s own file.
• Keshet’s rainbow printable sign, the oldest flag-shaped item in the collection: the file was archived from Keshet’s server on 23 December 2019, when the page carried the date 5 June 2019, and the copy served today is byte-identical to it. The star is drawn as an outline, so the stripes show through its centre. The wordmark reads “Keshet קשת | For LGBTQ equality in Jewish life”. Distributed as a vector PDF on a 17 by 11 inch page with its colours set in CMYK; the copy held here is a 768 by 499 pixel extract, whose dominant fills measure #EE1F25, #F1612A, #FFC018, #7B9C3D, #0070B7, #69257E and #FFFFFF. ^[7][2] · Credit: Keshet · Keshet
• Keshet’s Bear Pride printable sign, on the collection’s page by 25 May 2022: the colour field of Craig Byrnes’s Bear Brotherhood Flag, without its bear-paw canton, charged with the same outlined Star of David as the rainbow sign. Distributed as a vector PDF on the same 17 by 11 inch page; the copy held here is a 768 by 498 pixel extract, whose dominant fills measure #643513, #CC6829, #FFCC66, #F3D6C7, #5A5A5C, #242021 and #FFFFFF. ^[8][2] · Credit: Keshet · Keshet
• The design itself, at Keshet’s published size of 1,772 by 1,181 pixels. Distributed as a PNG on the LGBTQ+ Jewish Pride Signs page rather than as a printable PDF, and on that page by 28 May 2024; Keshet’s server dates the file to 16 May 2024. ^[4][2] · Credit: Keshet · Keshet
• Keshet’s intersex-inclusive design from the Pride 2026 packet, published beside the non-intersex rectangular design rather than in place of it. The white star is enlarged into a field holding the purple ring on a yellow disc of Morgan Carpenter’s Intersex Flag, and the other four stars become borders. This copy is the 1,565 by 1,042 pixel file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Gimelthedog on 8 June 2026, credited there to the Keshet Pride 2026 Digital Resource Packet and dated 21 April 2026. It is a later copy, not Keshet’s own file: Keshet publishes the design at 2,560 by 1,536, and the two differ in colour, the Commons copy’s purple measuring #932D8B against Keshet’s #65338A. ^[6][5][3] · Credit: Keshet, via Wikimedia Commons · Wikimedia Commons