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Bayla Greenspoon: “I bring the orange to put on the Seder plate. I do Jewish holidays… and I honour our two anniversaries, the one of the first kiss and the one of our joining ceremony”
Avital Jarus Hakak: “the fact that I can live my life with my partner without even thinking about the simplest things in life… that’s the greatest thing”
Marc Gelmon: “I was actually embarrassed about being Jewish and would tell people I was Italian… until I actually became an adult… [and] embraced my Jewishness”
Glen Phillips: “I have a menorah… and then there’s a painting of Ibiza, which is a very queer and beautiful place… and I think in my writing, some of that is expressed”
Dorothy Elias: “when I heard about [this project], I thought, ‘Hey, how wonderful!’… bring parts of myself together and let me focus on that... it’s really good timing for me”
Hope Forstenzer: “there’s something about those two identities working in tandem that makes you approach the world… with a desire to make every person feel safe and tended, accepted and heard”
Jaye Beer: “the bar for… celebrating transness is so low… literally just living each day… talk about two identities of oppression… being Jewish and celebrating it”
Lauren Nackman: “the band… got together and lit our menorahs… ate latkes together… we’re just a little Jewish women’s community, lesbian, queer, love spreading around”
Lily Hoenig: “celebrating my trans identity is mostly online… I’m very happy to do Shabbat every week with my parents… My mom and I make challah together”
Lisa Weiner: “it’s the gay women musicians whom I play with… I’m just very grateful that the Klezbians even tolerate me because they know I’m not Jewish in ritual”
Nancy Rosenblum: “definitely celebrate Passover, definitely celebrate Hanukkah, definitely say prayers… every day is a celebration of life and I’m a lesbian in my life”
Caryl Dolinko: “For every Jewish holiday, I will put wonderful explanations of what this holiday is, why it’s important and the impact it has on me. I live a lot of my Jewish life… by honouring the past”
Val Fishman: “I do Hanukkah, I do Solstice… feels like being who I truly am, and I integrate it. So I wear a L’Chaim and I wear a pentacle… so Jewish, gay and witch… Jewitch”
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