We’re excited to formally announce Jewish Liberation Fund’s slate of Fall 2021 Grantees! Our third grantmaking cycle— and only our second open application round of grantmaking— was also our most competitive to date. We’re excited to announce that we were able to make out grants to 14 organizations, including 11 new grantees, doing amazing progressive work all across the country. The following are the names and brief details of these organizations.
Read moreJewish Farmers, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Jewish Liberation
Two attendees at a JFN Conference smile at each other in a crowded room
As we approach Thanksgiving, Jordan spoke with SJ Seldin of the Jewish Farmer Network to learn more about the importance of uplifting the story of Jews as people of the land, how ancestral technologies can contribute to modern day ecological movements, and shed some light on how fighting for Indigenous sovereignty is inextricable from fighting for Jewish liberation. Check the conversation out here!
Read moreThe Magic of Finding Other Asian Jews with LUNAR
Image Description: Zoom screenshot of Jordan from JLF, and Gen and Jenni from LUNAR, smiling and waving at the camera with a play button in the center of the image.
We sat down with Gen Slosberg and Jenni Rudolph, the founders of LUNAR: the Jewish-Asian Film Project about building community for Asian Jews, the diversity and yearning for those communities, and season 2 of their Jewish-Asian Film Project releasing on YouTube right now! Follow them on Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter!
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Reparations, Sukkot, and Shmita at Linke Fligl, a Queer Jewish Chicken Farm
A group of approximately 20 people are wearing masks and dancing the hora under the Linke Fligl Sukkah, with four musicians in the center. The sukkah is large with at least 7 sides and colorful fabric walls. The Sukkah’s roof, the skach, is composed of long stalks of grass, oats, corn, and other local farm cuttings, with sunflowers poking down through the skach as decoration. Photo by Walter Hergt.
This Sukkot, we wanted to catch up with grantees doing work with the land. Linke Fligl, taking its name from the Yiddish term for “left-wing,” is a queer, Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project in Millerton, New York. They were recently featured in the Forward for their work, and were one of JLF’s Spring 2021 grantees. We spoke with their Co-director, Sol Weiss, and their Fundraising & Program Coordinator, Ollie Schwartz, about being connected with the land as a people, practicing reparations, and, of course, why chicken farming!
Read moreUnraveling Antisemitism: Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
This Jewish month of Elul, we caught up with two of our grantees for their work on tackling antisemitism as a part of dismantling broader systems of oppression. Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) recently released a piece of artwork titled, “Unraveling Antisemitism,” and we spoke with them about the significance of this piece for conversations in the Jewish community and more broadly. JLF’s questions below are in bold, and responses are in plain text.
Read moreHealing the Jewish South with the Antisemitism Listening Project
This Jewish month of Elul, we caught up with two of our grantees for their work on tackling antisemitism as a part of dismantling broader systems of oppression. Rabbi Salem Pearce, from Carolina Jews for Justice (CJJ) spoke to us about the organization’s work on the Antisemitism Listening Project, its importance for Jews, and how it can help us connect to broader movements for justice. Video of the interview is posted above, and a transcript, edited for clarity, is posted below. JLF’s questions are in bold below, and responses are in plain text.
Read moreNEW JEWISH FOUNDATION DEDICATES MILLIONS TO JEWISH SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT
The Jewish Liberation Fund (JLF) is a new, community-funded Jewish foundation, established to mobilize resources to sustain and grow the Jewish movement for justice and liberation. With more than five million dollars pledged over the next decade, the Jewish Liberation Fund is working to transform Jewish social justice philanthropy and ensure robust and stable funding for the Jewish social justice movement.
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