About Me
My name is Chaya (חיה). I’m an Israeli-Canadian transsexual anarchist, a ba’al teshuva, and a writer living between memory and resistance.
I was born in Israel and raised in Montreal. My life has woven through exile and return, queerness and tradition, grief and joy. I write as a way of coming home—to myself, to my people, to the sacred and broken world we inherit.
This blog is a gathering place for poems, stories, and fragments of Torah. It’s where I hold the tension between the holy and the profane, the whispered niggun and the shouted protest. Between Aleph and Tav is a love letter to the margins—Jewish, queer, anarchist, diasporic—and to the sparks we carry in our cracked jars.
I believe in stubborn joy, in sacred rage, and in building havurot where women and transfemmes lead, pray, cry, sing, and heal.
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