Happy Pride Month! Please refer to your invitation for more info, and feel free to reach out to David Friedland (he/him) at dfriedland@cija.ca if you have questions about the video production. Videos should be kept to 60-90 seconds to ensure we can include as many voices as possible. We will take all the footage we can, though in the spirit of trying to have a diverse film production, we may end up only using a brief amount of your video. At the start of your video, please include your name, pronouns, region, and title! For example, “David Friedland (he/him), Ottawa Ontario, Associate Director, Government Relations at CIJA“. Additionally, at the end of your video, please pause for a moment (for our video editing team) and then say/announce/holler/whisper “Happy Pride!!” which we will use in later productions. For messaging, we offer the following for you consideration, based on identity categories. For LGBTQ2+ Jewish community members: What do your queer and Jewish identity/identities have in common? What do you wish you could say to your younger self? What does 'inclusion' mean to you? What are you celebrating as a queer Jew this Pride? For allied Jewish community members: Who is a queer/trans Jewish person you love, admire or celebrate? Why is it important for the Jewish community to participate in Pride? What does 'inclusion' mean to you? What message would you offer to your queer children, congregants, community members? Rabbis, Cantors: Feel free to share some d'var Torah, some insight, some wisdom Feel free to sing Why are we better, together? Jess Burke (she/her), LGBTQ2+ Partnerships Liaison, CIJA Richard Marceau, VP, External Affairs and General Counsel, CIJA