One Year of JoCI’s Los Angeles Professional Network
This celebratory event brought together JoC professionals and a few dedicated allies to honor a year of connection, growth, and community-building.
This celebratory event brought together JoC professionals and a few dedicated allies to honor a year of connection, growth, and community-building.
By making grants to projects that generate new educational efforts and resources as well as continuing our long-standing tradition of community education through key speaking engagements, JoCI and our partners are ensuring racial diversity is reflected in Jewish education.
The energy and atmosphere of these gatherings are rooted in joy, camaraderie, individual growth, and collective reflection, offering participants a chance to process lived experiences, explore how to thrive in a multiracial Jewish community, and workshop evolving project and program ideas among a supportive collective.
Collectively, these three studies conducted by JoCI grantees demonstrate the power of research as a tool for advocacy, ultimately driving tangible impacts on community offerings.
With Jefferson and Feldman at the helm, JoCI is poised for an exciting period of expansion and impact. Their leadership, combined with the excellence of our dedicated Board members, will drive us forward in creating a more inclusive and vibrant Jewish community.
“Our Journey Towards Healing” is grounded in Jewish spirituality and aims to create a supportive environment where participants can express and explore their experiences of trauma. “The purpose of the program is to come together as JoC; to be able to express the trauma we live with every day by giving and receiving tools to one another,” explains Ghidalia.
We sat down with Dollinger and Kaufman to learn more about the revised edition of Black Power, Jewish Politics, their thought partnership, their reflections on the powerful book launch at Skirball Cultural Center, and how Dollinger and Kaufman became co-conspirators in the work of re-telling history.
Cheryl Weiner conducts research on Jewish activist teen girls. Though her research is not solely focused on the experiences of Jews of Color, Weiner made sure her research included a diverse sample of young women, focusing on those whose experiences are often overlooked, such as Jews of Color, those living in remote Jewish geographic areas, and those not raised in mainstream Jewish communities.
By assessing barriers to end-of-life care, riddick’s study is geared towards the creation of resources for JoC that can help them navigate end-of-life processes, rituals, and mourning with greater care.
With a keen focus on JoC (Jews of Color) family units—for young children, parents, and congregational educators—Kolker’s project, “We Belong At the Table,” harnesses the power of community programming, research, and web archival work to document, showcase, and disseminate diverse culinary traditions within Jewish communities.