Grantee Work: Spring 2023
INSIDE OUT WISDOM + ACTION PROJECT AND LUNAR COLLECTIVE
DISMANTLING RACISM FROM THE INSIDE OUT – PEOPLE OF COLOR COHORT: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6:00 pm ET
Register by April 17th for a new course, Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out, co-facilitated by Yehudah Webster and Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife and is sponsored by the Inside Out Wisdom + Action Project, the LUNAR Collective, and Jewish Multiracial Network. Efforts to dismantle racism are often comprised of education, advocacy, and systemic change. These efforts are not enough —it’s crucial that we also do the inner work necessary to change our habits of mind, body, and spirit to wholly dismantle racism. Indeed, it's through strengthening our habits of mind, body and spirit that we’ll be most effective and successful in our advocacy and organizing to dismantle racism systemically. We have ancestral wisdom available to support this change; Mussar is the Jewish spiritual discipline designed to integrate what the head understands with what the heart feels through daily practice. Emerge from this program with renewed ability and resilience to disrupt racism, a regular spiritual practice, and a set of concrete tools to support your antiracism efforts.
JEWTINA Y CO.
MEXICAN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: Sunday, April 2 - Wednesday April 5, 2023 at Tribeca Synagogue
The Mexican Jewish Film Festival is a retrospective on Mexican films directed, created, written, acted or produced by Mexican Jews. Just in time for Passover, these movies are meant to provide a heightened perspective on how Latin-Jewish experience double diasporic migration.
NUESTRO MOVIMENTO: PASSOVER INSPIRED STORIES OF MIGRATION AND MOVEMENT: Monday, April 10, 2023 at 4:30 - 5:45 pm PT / 7:30 - 8:45 pm ET on Zoom
Pesach (Pésaj) is around the corner! The narrative of Pésaj tells the story of our ancestor's migration from Egypt to Israel. Join Jewtina y Co. for Nuestro Movimiento (Our movement), a Passover gathering to explore stories of movement, migration, and preservation with the Latin Jewish community. This creative space will be an opportunity to express your own story or simply listen and connect.
Jewtina y Co.'s Pesaj resources can be found here.
KESHER PITTSBURGH AND MITSUI COLLECTIVE
EMBODYING JEWISH LIBERATION – SPIRITUAL JEWISH EMBODIMENT AND CULTURAL SOMATICS FOR COUNTERING OPPRESION AT THE ALEPH KALLAH: July 3-9, 2023 in West Chester, PA
Keshira haLev Fife from Kesher Pittsburgh and Yoshi Silverstein from the Mitsui Collective will be co-teaching Embodying Jewish Liberation — Spiritual Jewish Embodiment & Cultural Somatics for Countering Oppression at the ALEPH Kallah.
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THE LUNAR COLLECTIVE
LUNAR HAGGADAH 5783: A VIRTUAL PRESENTATION: Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 8:30 pm ET on Zoom
Join the LUNAR Collective for a virtual presentation of DANCING IN-BETWEEN, The LUNAR Collective's 5783 Haggadah. Created by a committee of 17 Asian Jews, this new Haggadah is a joyful celebration of being both Asian and Jewish amidst Passover rituals.
ASIAN JEWISH PASSOVER: NYC: Friday, April 7, 2023, 6: 30 pm ET at Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE), 274 Garfield Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Join LUNAR’s NYC Community for a magical and healing Passover Seder. On top of enjoying a delicious Asian Jewish fusion meal, this Seder will center the reading of the LUNAR Collective’s new 2023 Asian Jewish Haggadah. This event is for Asian Jews and a chosen +1.
ASIAN JEWISH PASSOVER: LA: Friday, April 7, 2023, 7:00 pm PT in Cheviot Hills, LA (RSVP for address)
The LUNAR Seder 2023: a beloved tradition returns! Join the LUNAR Collective for DANCING IN-BETWEEN, a joyful celebration of being both Asian and Jewish that is wrapped up in some powerful Passover rituals.
ASIAN JEWISH PASSOVER: BAY AREA: Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 3:30 pm PT in Santa Clara (RSVP for address), CA
Join the LUNAR Collective in Santa Clara for their annual Bay Area LUNAR Seder! This year's theme is DANCING IN-BETWEEN, a joyful celebration of being both Asian and Jewish that is wrapped up in some powerful Passover rituals.
NEFESH
NEFESH MUSAR WITH RABBI SUSAN GOLDBERG: 4 Sundays (March 26, April 16, May 7, and June 11, 2023) from 2:00 - 3:15 pm PT on Zoom
You are warmly invited to Nefesh’s Spring Mussar series with Rabbi Susan Goldberg. Mussar is Jewish wisdom perspective and a discipline of spiritual practices that center our deepest values. The values (middot) we are focusing on for this 4-part class are Love-Ahava, Courage-Ometz Lev, Fear/Awe-Yirah, and Joy-Simcha. Rabbi Susan's Mussar is emergent, feminist, queer and embodied. Rabbi Susan's Mussar is emergent, feminist, queer and embodied. Whether you have studied Mussar and the middot before, or you have no idea what it is, this class is for everyone! The class is entirely virtual, with options for in person meet ups/chevruta study.
A QUEER NIGGUN PROJECT
A QUEER NIGGUN PROJECT NISAN VIRTUAL CIRCLE: Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 8 pm ET
Join A Queer Niggun Project in the month of Nisan as they sing to themes of renewal, growth, budding, and liberation. This month's circle will be facilitated by Rena Branson and Rachel Chang. A Queer Niggun Project’s intention is to provide a healing space for queer-identified folks to gather and cocoon ourselves in Jewish melodies that transcend language (nigunim). Maybe you’re looking to heal your relationship with Judaism or with queerness or with singing or with your self or with existence. This hour won’t do all that, but it might help nurture some brave baby-steps forward. You’re welcome to come and listen if you don’t feel like singing. We love you. Live captioning will be provided. Please note that this is an affinity space for people who are LGBTQIA+ or questioning.
R&R
R&R WALKSHOP: Friday, March 24, 2023, 12:00 pm ET / 9:00 am PT
R&R WALKSHOP: Friday, June 9, 2023, 12:00 pm ET / 9:00 am PT
Join R&R by phone as participants move their bodies as a practice of learning. Gently and slowly at first, then with a quickening of pace. Built for all bodies and capabilities, R&R Walkshops are opportunities to take a break from typical workdays and ground ourselves in the outside world. Free of charge.
SVARA
TRANS HALAKHA PROJECT DAY OF LEARNING: Sunday, March 26, 2023, 12:00 pm ET
Join SVARA’s Trans Halakha Project (on their two-year anniversary!) for a day of learning and celebration in honor of the publication of two resources created by members of the Trans Halakha Project: A series of teshuvot—halakhic Q&A’s—and Tefillat Trans—a compilation of blessings and rituals for sacred moments. Learn from teshuva-writers and ritual-shapers about these practices and the processes that helped bring them to life. Explore how halakha is expanded and revealed through our experiences and lives as trans and non-binary people.
