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"El is an illustrator and jewelry maker currently based in Pittsburgh, whose main body of work addresses Judaism and queer identity."
Check out their work at the Queer Craft Market on June 30th from 5:30 - 9:00 pm at the Union Project!

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Thank you to everyone that came to our Halloween Shabbat!! It was so lovely sharing space and creating community together. Shabbat is a practice that has helped build and unite Jewish communities all across the world and we were so happy to add our Kehilat MICA community to the mix 💙

Keep following @kehilatmica for updates on upcoming programming and events!

Shabbat Shalom and an early Happy Halloween from Kehilat MICA 👻

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Read Emma E. Shooshan's (@emmashooshan) piece, "a sinister hour", or listen to a reading now on our website.

Notes from the author:
𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳 engages poetry as autoethnographic collage. Throughout 2018 I wrote a series of short pieces in conversation with the memory of an ancestor-- my paternal great-grandfather's first wife, Paris Shooshanian. She had fled the burning of her village in Armenia during the 1915 genocide, only to then die from a kitchen fire in Worcester MA. My great-grandfather later remarried, allowing my great-grandmother passage to America as his bride. For this reason Paris is revered as a Martyr by my family. I approached the process of writing as if from inside her grave, embodying what remains. At the end of the year, I synthesized my collection of writings into one cohesive piece-- as if I were assembling a collage.

The title and subtitles are inspired by lyrics translated from Russian love song “Очи чёрные” or “Ochi Chernye” meaning “Dark Eyes.” In my writing, I often imagined Paris as a figure much like the formidable object of desire being spoken to in “Ochi Chernye.”

Art by @eleheba ❤

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