>>> good morning and welcome to mosaic, and i am rabbi eric weiss and i'm honored to be your host this morning. >>> we are used to the conversation about the lgbtq, but one story we do not talk about is the lgbtq life in the safe community, so we invite you in a conversation with maxine epstein, at the jewish community high school, and rabbi, the director of music at berkeley, and welcome.>>> jumping into the conversation, this is different than what we usually have, but the lgbtq life in the safe community and jewish community, let's start out and asked each of you what your community -- your experiences been in the jewish community. maxine.>> i will date myself, so i him twice last. being a lesbian and being jewish was very difficult because i did not come out until graduate school. i did not think that being [ null ] had anything to being jewish, and i had no role model, and no one to model myself after. i did not think that i could be jewish and [ null ] until i met someone in graduate school at the same seminary that i attended as a commuter -- communal professional studying nonpr