Advancing Knowledge

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.

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

The Forward

Supporting JoC op-eds and JoC independent reporters to amplify JoC voices, leaders, and journalists at The Forward