Fiscal Sponsorship
The following entities are fiscally sponsored projects of JFREJ Community.
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Black Jewish Liberation Collective
Black Jewish Liberation Collective (BJLC) is a collective of Black Jews based in the United States who amplify their voices and uplift cultural and political organizing. They create space for community building and strategizing to support Black people who are working towards liberation and dismantling white supremacist patriarchy, racialized capitalism, and antisemitic violence.
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Community Safety Campaign
The Community Safety Campaign (CSC) is a group of a Jewish organizers, political educators, strategists, and healers represent voices on community safety and abolitionist organizing within the Jewish community. They are working to strengthen buy-in from progressive Jewish communities to divest from policing and surveillance by developing safety strategies and infrastructure that don’t rely on police.
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Egalitarian Mizrahi Sephardi Community
Egalitarian Mizrahi Sephardi Community is building a space where folks who are often marginalized from traditional Sephardi spaces can be their full selves: centering women and queer and trans leaders, liberatory politics, and our ancestors' Sephardi religious traditions. To date, their spiritual and cultural programming has included High Holiday services and liturgy workshps, Mimouna celebrations, and ancestral and cultural learning.
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Jewish Persistence Pledge
Jewish Persistence Pledge is an organizing tool to solidify sustained multiracial Jewish commitment to BLM, by organizing non-Black Jews to stay in the movement even when charges of antisemitism arise. In poetic and hopeful language, it creates a structure for 1:1 organizing conversations between non-Black Jews about committing for the long haul to Black liberation and to a model of empowered communal response to antisemitism.
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Judaism On Our Own Terms
Judaism On Our Own Terms (JOOOT) is a cross-national organiztion and movement that aims to create and build a network of student-governed and liberation-aligned Jewish communities on college campses. JOOOT works to build Jewish communal life that is free from the dictates of legacy Jewish institutions that constrain us and distort Judaism.
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Jewish Bridge Project
Jewish Bridge Project is collective of multiracial, multi-ethnic, cross-denominational, cross-class Jewish and non-Jewish organizers, educators, writers, strategists, academics, researchers, healers, organizational consultants, and culture weavers. They offer consultancy, strategy, learning, and support to help create more expansive, inclusive and intersectional understandings of justice.
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Shoresh
Shoresh is a movement of anti-Zionist Israelis in the US — who are women, queer, army objectors, military retirees, Ashkenzi, Mizrahi, Russian, Ethiopian, Druze and more — and who elieve that there is no Zionist framework that can truly affirm the humanity, safety and rights of Palestinians. As anti-Zionist Israelis in the US, they fight for anti-fascist political transformation within our own society in Israel and exert external pressure on Israel from the US, which funds and upholds Israeli apartheid and oppression.
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Lider Mit Palestine
In the face of the ongoing genocidal assault on the Palestinian people, “LIDER MIT PALESTINE: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love” is a collection of 17 original songs steeped in history and heritage and committed to a liberatory future. Songs that tremble with heartache and shake with anger, songs that overflow with life, from a group of artists who refuse to accept a status quo of oppression and erasure, and who refuse silence.
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Liberatory Jewish Studies Network (LJS)
The Liberatory Jewish Studies Network (LJS) works to connect around shared political commitments to envision and cultivate the field of Jewish Studies beyond Zionism and in solidarity with others committed to anti-racism and Indigenous sovereignty, including pro-Palestinian organizing. Through this network we build supportive and strategic relationships, discuss how we navigate the intellectual and institutional landscape of Jewish Studies, and work together towards other shared goals as they emerge. LJS is primarily, but not exclusively, based in North America and launched in January 2024.
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Beyond the Pale
Radio's home for the Jewish Left. WBAI’s Jewish politics & culture show hosted by Rafale Shimunov and Shoshana Brown on Fridays at 9AM on 99.5FM and streaming.
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Black New York/Bright New York
Black NY/Bright NY’s purpose is to empower Black New Yorkers to have a voice in the future of the city they call home and fight for the transformative policies that will begin to repair centuries of racialized inequality. BBNY is a new citywide coalition for Black-led organizations and Black movement leaders within multiracial organizations to meet, strategize, advocate, and build Black power in service of left, progressive policy-making. BBNY’s table is open to all Black-led social justice movement organizations, as well as individual Black organizers and leaders, as long as they are in broad alignment with the table’s goals and values.
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Brooklyn Shabbat Kodesh
Brooklyn Shabbat Kodesh is an anti-Zionist, diasporist, traditional egalitarian minyan that meets on the fourth Friday night of each month. We aim to create a Shabbat experience rooted in rest where Jewish people, our friends, and loved ones can pray, eat, grieve, celebrate, and build community together outside of Zionism. As diasporists and members of this community, we make our home where we live, here in Crown Heights on Lenape and Canarsie land. We are a community oriented towards collective liberation, and that liberation happens right here with our neighbors, as well as in Palestine.
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The Bushwick Ridgewood Shul
An anti-Zionist, pluralistic Jewish community.
We practice Liberatory Judaism.
We do monthly Shabbat services with a potluck dinner.
Reach out to tbrs.nyc@gmail.com to get connected.