Queer Jews at Brandeis


Queer Jews at Brandeis (QJAB) is an affinity group for Queer/LGBTQIA2S+ Jewish students on campus. This club aims to create a warm, welcoming, and safe community for Queer Jewish students, created to provide community, friends, and peer support from Jewish Queer students, for Jewish Queer students.


2025 Spring Board

Ian Jacobs (he/they)- President

Avi Rosen (he/they)- President

Mitchell Peran (he/him)- Vice President

Abby Litwin (they/them)- Events Coordinator

Yonatan Freedman-Naditch (she/her)- Treasurer

Maya Schulman (she/her)- Treasurer

Mitzi Stidd- Communications Coordinator


"I love being a part of QJAB because it gives me a space to openly celebrate and live in all of my identities. I find that no one else quite understands my experience as well as other queer Jews, because the intersection of those identities is so important and specific. Especially when I don’t necessarily want to or feel comfortable uplifting my Jewish identity in queer spaces or my queer identity in Jewish spaces, it’s so great to have a community where I can talk about how those things relate to each other and be fully in both of them" - Member of QJAB


How to get involved