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This Monday  on Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer  looks at how spiritual activism can help us deal with  being  surrounded by  so much violence, war,  militarism and machismo.   I wanted to know how as activists we can practice a spiritual activism in these very hard times and I wanted  to learn  why practicing spiritual activism is important  for the health and success of our movements.  To do that I invited  three Jewish feminist spiritual activists who I feel have a lot of wisdom to share and who can help us figure out  how we can live in integrity and without burn out in these times when there is so little to rejoice about and when  we are surrounded by people in power who have so little integrity. 

I will be joined by:

Susala Kay who is a ritualist, facilitator of sacred space, and instigator of eco-feminist beloved community striving towards ending all types of oppression. She lives with disabilities and cares deeply about radical access, power differentials, and liberation. As a JeWitch, and a priestess in the Reclaiming tradition, she has been involved in blending Pagan and eco-feminist Jewish community together since the mid-1990s. She is a co-founder and steward of JeWitch Collective and JeWitch Camp. 

She co-facilitates monthly in-person Anti-zionist covid-cautious disability justice infused shabbat services for Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Oakland. She is also involved with Richmond Area Mutual Aid and Singing Resistance East Bay.

Rabbi Cat Zavis who is the Rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Oakland, California, and is a member of Rabbis for Ceasefire and the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity.

Rae Abileah who is a member of Rabbis for Ceasefire, an advisory board member of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and is an organizer with ALAS, Ayudando Latinos a Soñar in Half Moon Bay, California.

You can find Rae at:Tzimtzum Community: https://www.tzimtzumcommunity.com/ 

Resources

Article by Rabbi Cat and Kohenet Rae: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/resistance-under-occupation-minneapolis-palestine/ 

JVP-Bay Area: https://www.instagram.com/jvpbayarea/

Collective for Inclusive Education: https://www.instagram.com/collective4inclusiveed (interfaith network to keep schools inclusive and counter racism and zionism in south bay schools – so important!) 

Use the Power of Ritual (Principle in the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox): https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/use-the-power-of-ritual 

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Join 1st Monday of the month host, Vylma V, as she recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) for April 2026 with two guests, HuNia Bradley Executive Director of the Sexual Assault Advocacy Network (SAAN) and Dr. Lori Pitts, author of The 5 Pillars of Healing, A Spiritual Blueprint for Transforming Sexual Trauma.

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Today on Women’s Magazine host Margo Okazawa-Rey will be paying her respects and honoring the late Iraqi feminist activist Yanar Mohammed, assassinated in front of her home in Baghdad on 2 March 2026 for her activism, by re-broadcasting an interview aired 24 June 2024.

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This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to 3 Iranian and Iranian American scholars and activists to get an Iranian feminist perspective on the U.S. attack on Iran to help us better understand what a feminist response to Iran is. We talk to Iranian graduate student, playwright and cartoonist Sepehr Jafari who was active in anti-regime protests in Iran between 2015 and 2020. We also talk to Asma Adbi, an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter, whose research focuses on social reproduction, gender, and the political economy of war and sanctions, with a focus mostly on Iran. And we have joining us Manijeh Moradian, who is assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of Feminists for Jina, a global network which formed in fall 2022 to support the women, life, freedom uprising in Iran.

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This program is the third part in a series that started with the April 2025 broadcast to spotlight the genocide of Rohingya people of Myanmar. In 2017, a violent military offensive forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee across the border to refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 1.1 million people – 75% of them women and children – live there as of June 2025. There are also tens of thousands in refugee camps in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. This past week, on January 22, 2026, International Court of Justice began hearings on the genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). I will interview feminist advocates and activists Noor Azizah and human rights attorney Nuraisha Mohd Hanif to gather updates for listeners about the court case and the current conditions in the refugee camps where thousands of people continue to suffer beyond most people’s imaginations. This was first broadcast on January 26, 2026 edition of Women’s Magazine

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