Treyf

Treyf—“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. Incisive and iconoclastic—never cynical—filmmakers, their personal film makes a reflection on culture, community, and individual desire. We follow them as they weave their way from New York to Jerusalem in pursuit of a progressive, secular Jewish identity that draws from their childhood reminiscences as much as from their contemporary queer activism. Together, they discover that what they thought was most profoundly “treyf” about their worldviews still has roots in Jewish history.