Joanna and Jonny interview ​​Rabbi Alissa Wise about anti-Zionism, organizational building, Jewish Voice for Peace, and a book she co-wrote on lessons in anti-Zionist organizing.

Rabbi Alissa Wise is a community organizer, educator, organizational consultant, and ritual leader with over two decades of movement-building experience. She is the Lead Organizer of Rabbis for Ceasefire which she founded in October 2023. She is co-author of Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket, 2024).

Also, on our episode, we share feedback from listeners. Email us at [email protected] to give us your feedback and we’ll feature you. Joanna shares about her community came together after a tragic loss they suffered; and Jonny waxes on the beauty and hope of the game of baseball.

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Buy Alissa’s book here: https://www.solidaritylovebook.org/

Jonny’s ode to baseball: https://jonnyrashid.substack.com/p/an-ode-to-baseball

Edited by Ken Ogasawara and Christen Kong

Artwork by Jesse Bergen

Produced by Jonny Rashid, Joanna Lawrence Shenk and Nick Martin