2021-2022 Grants

JOC Pregnancy and Postpartum Research Project

Using oral history methodology to examine the customs and practices of Jews of Color in the United States during pregnancy, birth, pregnancy loss, abortion, and postpartum.

AHAverim: Hawaiian Jews

Building better relationships between Ashkenazi Jews in Hawai’i and the Kānaka Maoli community, while confronting our complex relationships as Jews to the land, and by extension, our ideas of wealth and identity.

The Associated

The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore is supporting their new JoC Engagement Fellow

Uri L’Tzedek

Uri L’Tzedek is collaborating with Jewtina y. Co to bring JoC leaders together at a 4-day immersive leadership retreat and cohort experience

Kavod v’Nichum

Kavod v’Nichum is supporting JoC research to learn how JoC engage in Jewish end-of-life rituals and practices including Chevrot Kadisha, funerals and burials, and grief and mourning rituals, and support the creation of new JoC chevra kadisha resources

Kamochah

Kamochah, fiscally sponsored by JFNA, is creating spaces where Black Orthodox Jews can embrace their racial/cultural identity and their religious observance