The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History will initiate a proactive collecting effort, with support of an advisory board of Jews of Color, to ensure that JoC experiences are meaningfully represented in the Museum, which shares vibrant, varied, and true stories of American Jewish life throughout the nation’s history.
SVARA is leading in-person learning through five immersive yeshiva-style day camps in August 2024 that celebrate queer culture and the radical roots of Jewish traditions. Program content is created and led by JoC teachers to center and celebrate queer JoC perspectives and expand JoC leadership within SVARA’s day camps.
The Neshamot/Rainbow Souls Shabbaton: A Retreat of Radiant Belonging — co-led by the JOC Mishpacha Project and Keshet — is a Shabbat weekend retreat for 18+ LGBTQ+ Jews of Color that celebrates and fosters feelings of Jewish joy, authenticity, and community.
JWA is launching a writing fellowship for Jewish Women of Color (JWOC) to support and amplify their voices as thought leaders. The Fellowship will give participants time to focus on their ideas and craft, engage with a peer cohort and professional mentors, and develop their voices and influence.
Through a series of short films and a guided community discussion with the filmmakers, this program, featured at the 44th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (July 18 – August 4, 2024) explores the diverse experiences of Jews of Color related to themes of race, belonging, migration, diaspora, and the transmission of shared culture across barriers of identity.
Hillel at UCLA is taking a crucial step toward better understanding the obstacles that limit access to Jewish life for JoC and to make data-informed shifts to lower barriers to belonging as they support a student leader who will lead the establishment and growth of a Jews of Color affinity group.
Seasons of Our Joy is an 8-episode docuseries featuring Jews of Color in Los Angeles and how they live Jewishly. The docuseries challenges viewers to reconsider what Jewish looks like in LA, and how JoC express their Jewishness in meaningful ways.
Correlate JOC will support at least 25 LA-based JoC through both drop-in and cohort experiences that teach embodied and relational skills. JoCs who participate will strengthen authentic self expression, improve their relationship skills, and learn tools to build bridges among and between JoC and greater Jewish communities.
With the guidance of a JoC facilitator, Recustom seeks to empower a cohort of 10 Los Angeles-based Jews of Color, over a 6-week period, to collaboratively create rituals for the High Holidays, fostering a transformative experience for both the participants and the broader community.
Shades of Belonging is a research project dedicated to better understanding the perspectives and lived experiences of Jewish Adoptees of Color. The findings of this study were shared at a community festival featuring various art forms, children’s activities, and a research presentation.
