How does Jewish spirituality relate to Jewish community organising? This week, Rabbi David J. Cooper, whom Ben met on the CJNV delegation to Israel-Palestine, joins us to discuss his experience as an activist and organiser of the progressive Kehilla Community Synagogue in the East Bay Area of California, and explore the ethical and spiritual values which have been central to his work.

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Kehilla Community Synagogue kehillasynagogue.org

Centre for Jewish Nonviolence (CJNV) cjnv.org

Jews on Ohlone Land jewsonohloneland.org

From May 13-25th, Jewish Diasporist Co-host, Ben Yanowitz, joined the Center for Jewish Non-violence's (CJNV)'s annual delegation to Palestine/Israel. This episode features a series of shorter interviews and conversations recorded during the delegation. While not about CJNV directly, we sought to share stories from different participants in order to contextualize the crucial networking among diaspora Jews, and organizing with Palestinians, that CJNV facilitates on the land.

3:05-22:39 Louisa Kornblatt Interview

22:50-35:23 Discourse on Apartheid

35:34-51:51 Sam Stein Interview

53:37-1:03:47 Live from Masafer Yatta

Jewish Currents: The Plight of Masafer Yatta: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-nose/id1573983987?i=1000616154586

Check out the Center for Jewish Nonviolence: https://cjnv.org/

Aly Halpert’s Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=MQUxPonHRy-xPScK6cKT_w

Josh Burg, a member of INN's Washington D.C. core team and national strategic planning team, joins us to discuss the values of Jewish youth summer camps, as well as the current movement ecosystem of the Jewish left in the United States

.ifnotnowmovement.org

twitter.com/joshburg

PS. Shoutout to everyone at Camp Newman right now!

On this episode we interviewed David Adler, the General Coordinator of the Progressive International to discuss the prospects and pitfalls of Jewish Internationalism within a broader framework of Socialist Internationalist organizing. In this we explore the history and present of mass socialist internationalism to better understand how to organize across borders and facilitate international coordination across the left.As this is a mass movement that is still being built, we encourage people to join in building the world to come.

https://progressive.international/

https://davidrkadler.info/

Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine began 15 months ago. How do we relate to it as Jewish Diasporists? To help us answer these questions, we spoke to Mariia! Originally from Dnipro, now based in Kraków, Poland, she coordinates young refugee relief efforts with the local Jewish Community Centre and Hillel Poland. Tune in next week for a new episode!

Previous Podcasts with Mariia: https://tcjewfolk.com/podcast/the-jews-are-tired/https://pod.link/1616395167/episode/61fb3fa211445c342f1b5af9c7c4da1c

Read more about Mariia: https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/voices-of-european-jewry-krakow-poland/

Watch "Winter on Fire" on Netflix about the Euromaidan Revolution: https://www.netflix.com/title/80031666

Sarcasmitron's Youtube Series on Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exJ024Zdzdk

Check out Aly Halpert on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=CD_Ybuf2SuW0mr0iW1goWg

After spending a week in Poland in honour of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we sat down with Julia Bard and David Rosenberg from the UK-based Jewish Socialist Group to discuss their organisation and experience, in addition to our shared experience commemorating in Poland.

Check out the Jewish Socialist Group: https://www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/

Check out Aly Halpert on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=CD_Ybuf2SuW0mr0iW1goWg

In this episode we discuss our experience at the 2023 UJS Conference. Join us for a wild ride!

Our pilot episode. In this first podcast we introduce ourselves, and some of the key themes we will be discussing through this show, We also touch on the organising work from which this podcast is coming.