Imagining the World to Come: An Introduction
At JVP, we work hard to imagine a different future for Palestinians and Israelis, one without walls, checkpoints, home demolitions, and child detention. One where everyone has freedom of movement, access to clean water, the right to live and worship as they please.
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Psalm 92 – Song after the Revolution
For those who struggle for liberation then, Shabbat offers the weekly opportunity to cease the struggle, if but for a day, to dwell in the world that we are ultimately fighting for.
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The City
It seems crucially important to me, at this time when hatreds divide us and violence upends whole countries’ civilian populations, that we retain the ideal of the City of Refuge, a place of peace and mutual respect where human needs are met and all are welcome who wish to begin anew.
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zog nit keyn mol
“zog nit keyn mol,” is a collage-based work from research I have been doing on Jewish women partisan fighters from the second world war and Nazi Holocaust.
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All of Us or None
This blog post responds to the many inaccuracies in the ADL’s response to our Deadly Exchange Day of Action on November 8th.
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Day of Action at the ADL – Media Roundup
15 Cities, 20 Chapters, hundreds on the streets from Las Vegas to Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC, Seattle, Boston and more tell the Anti-Defamation League to stop US/Israel Police Exchanges.
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BREAKING: Hundreds of JVP activists across U.S. demonstrating against ADL’s role in U.S.-Israel Deadly Exchange programs
“We want to end Israel’s human rights abuses, not hold them up as a model.”
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How can thinking about abolition help us imagine the world to come?
We see the centuries of Jewish thought, culture, and practice, which has always engaged in questions of envisioning a transformed world, as a rich source of inspiration and challenge to our questions about abolition today.
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What Does it Mean to Keep our Kehillah Safe during the High Holidays?
Here’s to the day when Jewish organizations are meeting regularly and getting support on safety and security from well funded anti-racist groups, fire safety experts, health care systems, trauma experts and community-building and interfaith organizations.
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