Queer text study is a brainchild of LGBTQ+ at the J envisioning a space to connect our community to text in an accessible, supportive and open way. Each month, we’ll join with a LGBTQ+ Jewish educator as we dive in together to study texts connected to each Hebrew month. This month we’re excited to partner with the newly launched HaMakom out of Vancouver!
For our inaugural session, we’ll be learning with Cantor Shira Stanford Asiyo, founder of HaMakom.
Registration through the Amilia. Suggested donation of $10 to support our facilitator, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Questions? Email carag@mnjcc.org
Upcoming facilitators:
November ~ Rabbi Becca Walker
December ~ Rabbi Andrea Myers
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Cantor Shira Stanford-Asiyo is a queer, progressive Reconstructionist Cantor living with her wife on unceeded Coast Salish Land also known as Vancouver. She is a co-founder of Hamakom, a radical Beit Midrash (community of learning), and provides lifecycle rituals and spiritual support and coaching. She can be reached at cantorshira@gmail.com.
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