Melissa Nussbaum Freeman (she/her/goddexx) is a Queer, Sefardi/Ashkenazi, self-loving, anti-zionist abolitionist, who uses theater, art and ritual to stir the good-trouble pot as often as possible. Passion is her motor; her backup engine is a wild belief in the change that moves towards justice. melissa@jvp.org www.tinyurl.com/melissanussbaumfreeman.

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Elul convo:

• Leil S’lichot: Evening of Supplication, the point in the month of Elul when some communities begin reciting the S’lichot prayers, asking for forgiveness

• Queer post-Soviet maker of shofarot: @zhyd0vka 

• Tefillin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUsDP1PqVZw

• Al Nes: For the Miracle We Have Enlivened https://rebekaherevstudio.com/blog/2020/10/2/al-nes-for-the-miracle-we-enlivened

• T’shuvah: Often translated as Repentance, it literally means return, as in return to wholeness.

Interview:

• Jewish Voice for Peace Havurah network: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/havurah-network/

• Taproot: https://www.taprootcommunity.org/

This way to Olam haBa:

• Stolen Beam: https://ikar.org/sermons/our-country-was-built-on-a-stolen-beam-the-call-for-a-national-reckoning/

Song:

• Lulei Hemanti is the last two lines from psalm 27, which is traditional to recite every day of Elul.

Jna Shelomith (she/her) grew up sporadically homeless in a family that spoke six different languages, with Jewish roots in Morocco and Russia. A writer at the intersection of Arabic (created to share sacred stories) and Riot Grrrl (created for punk rock feminist expression), she works with Mizna, an Arab/Muslim arts-journal. For pay, Jna focuses on community engagement and systems change addressing complex challenges impacting communities on Dakota Land/Twin Cities, Minnesota. Singing with groups and smashing white-supremacy -patriarchy are her happy places. Follow her @jnagillis.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Eicha/Lamentations: https://www.sefaria.org/Lamentations
• Lamentations for the destruction of Palestine: https://tinyurl.com/NakbaLamentations5783
• Seven weeks of consolation: https://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/seven-weeks-of-consolation/
• Beshert: meant-to-be

Interview:

• Mizna: https://mizna.org/
• Tikkun olam: Healing and Repairing the World
• Mimouna: A traditional Maghrebi Jewish celebration dinner, originating in Morocco, that takes place the day after Pesach. 
• Jewcy: A network of young leftist Jews that held gatherings in the early 2000’s.
• Rabbi Arthur Waskow: An author, activist and rabbi associated with the Jewish Renewal movement.
• Riot Grrrl: A grassroots network and support system for feminists in the punk scene that began in the early nineties.
• Nigun: Wordless melody

This Way to Olam haBa

• http://sacredsea.org
• More about Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut:
• https://grist.org/fix/opinion/lummi-nation-southern-resident-killer-whale-salish-sea-return/
• https://sacredsea.org/skalichelhtenaut/
• https://vimeo.com/446827572
• https://whalesanctuaryproject.org/

Song: 

“The World is Alive,” by Nomy Lamm for Tu B’Av (originally written as a crush song to a tree)

Mica Amichai (they/them) is a mizrachi/ashkenazi queer nonbinary neurodivergent jewish person living in the bay area. They are deeply connected to the earth and loves gardening, playing with their dogs, birdwatching with friends, and getting far away from roads and electricity. They work hard to infuse urban planning with social justice. Follow them @mica_amichai.

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• Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us
• Keffiyeh - traditional scarf worn by many people in the so-called Middle East and also worn as a symbol of support for Palestinian liberation
• ISM - International Solidarity Movement https://palsolidarity.org/
• Women in Black https://womeninblack.org/
• Drash - shortened form of “midrash” used broadly nowadays to refer to any written or verbal commentary on Torah/scripture
• Sefer Yetzirah - “Book of Creation” and the earliest known written text on Jewish mysticism
• Gadol - Hebrew word that can mean an influential thinker or spiritual leader (used to describe revered Rabbis)
• Find more about the work of Michaela Harris, the whale whisperer, at https://www.michaelaharrison.org/
• El Segundo blue butterflies - https://xerces.org/endangered-species/species-profiles/el-segundo-blue