Unruly

By Danny Bryck In 2018, playwright and activist Dan Fishback and I sat down and talked about identity, organizing, wellness, and the arts in Trump’s America. In the relentless two years that followed, we never got around to publishing it. So in October of 2020, just...

JIMENA’s response to the California Ethnic Studies model curriculum brings up much-needed criticism of the essentialism and orientalism that plagues the discourse on the Middle East. However, the response also perpetuates Islamophobia and conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

From Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/202854174332023/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1585160398718148 While the world swirls with news of our health and the presidential elections take a back seat, Jews of Color are stepping into leadership roles in...

MaNishtana is the pseudonym of Shais Rishon, an Orthodox African-American Jewish rabbi, writer, speaker, and author of Thoughts From A Unicorn: 100% Black. 100% Jewish. 0% Safe. His latest book is Ariel Samson, Freelance Rabbi. January 5, 2020, New York City My wife...

By Rafael Shimunov On the last night of Chanukah, in pouring rain, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and Jewish allies of all denominations formed a circle around and throughout the Hasidic and Haredi menorah lighting celebration in protection and Jewish...

By Shoshana Akua Brown Prologue: This is just my story of the creation of Kwanzakkah. I’m sure I wasn’t the first person to think of this holiday, nor the first to say the word Kwanzakkah out loud. I imagine tons of Black Jews saying it regularly amongst their...

By Aurora Levins Morales Artwork By Ricardo Levins Morales By all the rivers of our many exiles, we have sat down and wept, as we remembered the lands of our ancestors, the lands that were stolen from us, the places we were stolen and driven from. We wept as we...

Please support Rimonim, a collectively funded poet-in-residence project that supports Puerto Rican Jewish writer and activist Aurora Levins Morales as she writes new Jewish liturgy for our times. www.indiegogo.com/projects/rimonim-liturgy-project

Police brutality and mass incarceration are forms of institutionalized state violence and control that disproportionately impact communities of color across political boundaries and imposed borders. The following is part of a series exploring the way that marginalized...

by Tom Haviv I first published the Hamsa Flag essay in the inaugural issue of PROTOCOLS in the summer of 2017. Almost two years later, the need for this project, and projects like it, feels even more pressing. On a daily basis, we see our ancestral and cultural...

Open Letter from Latinx Jews: We know this moment in history, and we will not stay silent. Let Our People Go.

This Saturday evening April 27th / 23 Nisan, as Passover comes to an end, the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) Mizrahi/Sephardi Caucus will host a leftist community Mimouna in Brooklyn, NY. Mimouna is a North African Jewish tradition, in which families...