Team Queens Honouree Film

project inspired dedicated this event this zoom dinner to the memories of my father and my mother-in-law and also our team members fariba she lost her mother and her sister you're going to be meeting amazing women with a heart of gold and the sensitivity that they have for every single person is it's just boundless it's just brought together many people and unity is really one of the most important things to me in 2011 rabbi samson came to our neighborhood and he gave a series of lectures about foundation of judaism and at the end he asked who would like to volunteer to take women to israel with little or no background team queens is a group of women who absolutely love being jewish and their love is so profound and their love is so deep and real that they just need to share it with everybody around it so i am a second career attorney my first career i was a fashion designer my background i come from the persian community and we're very culturally jewish lighting the candles going to shul but it was much more cultural and symbolic it wasn't a spiritual at least the way i was raised [Music] i learned about project inspire for my sister jackie she had gone to israel with the group in 2016 and i went to israel october of 2017 and i had the time of my life i met some lifelong friends and i learned about judaism in a completely different way part of my growth since 2017 i have started doing uh torah studies one of the team leaders in arizona her name is robin meyerson she's my study partner and once a week we uh we study torah we study the parsha project inspires taught me is to look inward to feel a connection with other women who have different levels of religiosity different levels of observance judaism is about holding onto it following the torah and mitzvos and sharing it with everyone you know all if you teach olive queen's group has really enhanced my life i just want to thank them for enriching my life and and i want to thank god for putting me in this place so that i can be part of an organization like this and really make an impact in the world and that's what these women do they're so loving and each and every one of the leaders are so dimensionally different we have we have funny we have shy we have witty we have smart everybody's completely different and that's so wonderful because as the as the ladies are coming in it's okay we've got to you're home [Music] you