Kosher Queers is a weekly podcast featuring at least two Jews with generally more than three opinions. Your hosts, Lulav and Jaz, bring you queer takes on Torah, jokes about Judaism, and a thorough look at the parsha and haftarah.
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Jaz Twersky is a teacher and knitting enthusiast. They live in Brooklyn with many roommates and a couple dogs.
Jaz is one of the hosts of Kosher Queers! Jaz was a west coast kid who grew up in Seattle and the Bay Area, now happily finding a home on the east coast. They started knitting when they were eight years old and never stopped. They graduated from UC San Diego in 2018 and majored in linguistics; they would be happy to explain everything from garden path sentences to sociolinguistics to you any time. Jaz currently teaches Judaism to third graders, and learns Talmud every day. They like bright colors, kippot that match their clothes, and open and honest communication.
Lulav, sitting at her podcast recording station in her living room, wearing a grey cowl-neck sweater and cream-colored tichel. Her black headphones and her microphone are visible. Bookshelves and an unmade twin bed are in the background. An unfortunately goyish bible is open behind her keyboard.
Lulavet Arnow is an educational freelancer in Minneapolis. (She isn't quite sure what that means either.)
Lulav is also one of the hosts of Kosher Queers! Lulav grew up around Milwaukee and escaped westward, like teen Gatsby or a reverse Rose Nylund, to St. Olaf College. She retains a strong sense of geography and will happily illustrate spatial relationships with a series of increasingly elaborate hand gestures. She has degrees in chemistry and computer science, and will gladly tutor people on either of those subjects or in a variety of other sciences. Lulav can often be found listening to people infodump about their passions, replaying favorite video games, reading million-word fanfiction, and being a lesbian.
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Ezra Faust is a powerful audio wizard. His true form is unknowable to humans.
Ezra does audio editing for Kosher Queers! Ezra grew up right outside of Philadelphia, but now lives in the city proper with his four tarantulas and a five year backlog of unreleased music. He decided against throwing himself into a Philosophy PhD after undergrad, and instead worked in the recording studio with various musicians, such as local Philadelphians Settled Arrows and Martha Graham Cracker. He likes playing casual EDH with anyone that will put up with his play style, and holds that Shammai is right about the Chanukah candles, but is definitely too shy to let his friends know he’s a heretic.
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JJ Jensen
JJ Jensen grew up in Maine and has yet to achieve escape velocity. In addition to transcribing for Kosher Queers, they are a writer and actor (complete with a sadly underutilized theatre degree). When not making stuff, they like to play video games and listen to podcasts. You can find out more about them here and about their upcoming audio drama here.