How Can I Participate?

Chant/Leyn Torah

• Follow these links to find videos of the relevant Torah portion being leyned in Ashkenazi and Sephardi (Northern Moroccan) Nusach - by and for members of the trans Jewish community.

Give a Dvar Torah

Drashim themes:

• Joseph the dreamer -- prophetic queerness

• Gay azz coat

• Getting cast out by family

• Amos - Justice

• Bilhah and Zilpah 

• Beauty of Joseph -- transfem -- get into midrash (wore high heels, everyone was attracted to Joseph, etc)

• Joseph being left and forgotten in jail -- trans women starting and sustaining movements and then being forgotten as movements progress

Additional Ways to Be Part of the Torah Service

• Open the ark

• Parade the Torah

• Receive an Aliyah / Create Group Aliyot

• Prepare blessings for people who are receiving aliyahs

• Chant the Haftorah Amos 2:6 - 3:8

• Be a gabbai (aka partner with Torah readers, announce aliyot)

• Do Hagbahah (lift up the Torah)

• Do Gelilah (dress the Torah)