Celebrating Hanukkah - the Jewish Festival of Lights - coast-to-coast with JQT Vancouver and Tribe 12 Philadelphia. For every day of Hanukkah, JQT’s Carmel Tanaka lit the menorah and schmoozed with our invited “Hanukkah Hotties”, all of whom are lighting up their respective parts of the world by queering Jewish space and Jewifying queer space!

Read more about this event in Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent:
https://www.jewishexponent.com/2020/12/17/lgbtq-orgs-partner-for-chanukah-celebration/

Interview Recordings

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 1 - Carmel Tanaka, JQT Vancouver & Davinica Nemtzow, Tribe 12 | Philly

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 2 - Stuart B Meyers, Queer Jewish Performing Artist | New York City

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 3 - Galia Godel, LGBTQ Initiative JFCS & Davinica Nemtzow, Tribe12 | Philly

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 4 - Danielle Selber, Jewish Matchmaker & Kara Laricks, LGBTQ+ Matchmaker

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 5 - Arya Marvazy, Managing Director, JQ International | Los Angeles

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 6 - Angelica Poversky, Queer Non-Binary Russian-Jewish Poet | Vancouver

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 7 - Nate Looney, Manager of Racial Justice Initiatives, Avodah | LA

Hanukkah Hotties: Shamash Candle - David Studniberg, Keshet Germany & Jewish Museum Berlin | Germany

Hanukkah Hotties: Candle 8 - Azra Silverstein, Queer Jewish Tarot Reader | Vancouver