5786 Contributors
Arielle Tonkin ~ Tishrei
Arielle Tonkin (they/them) is a mixed Moroccan and Ashkenazi artist and a Community Council Member for Golden Thread Production’s Season for Palestine. Arielle paints, performs, weaves and officiates immersive art and ritual experiences across turtle island and beyond. Arielle began as a youth activist involved in Muslim-Jewish student organizing in post-9/11 New York.
Photo by Jess Benjamin.
Efrat Yerday ~ Cheshvan
Efrat Yerday is a PhD candidate in Sociology researching the possibility of being black and Jewish in Israel, and is interested in the different ways Blackness and the stigma attached to it express itself outside the USA. Efrat had served as the Chair of the Association of Ethiopian Jews and has founded several initiatives, including the Young Ethiopian Students blog, Ra’av publishing house, and “Ethiopolitics” reading group. She wrote the blog “Shchora M’Shachor” among other op-eds in Haaretz, Ynet, and Middle East Eye. She is frequently involved in translation projects of Black American writers, including James Baldwin, Pat Parker, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Zora Neale Hurston. www.efratyerday.com
Vijoya Taylor ~ Kislev
From the forested heart of the Guianas, Vijoya Taylor threads "love-lines" and little truths, spiced with curiosity and unconventionality. A devoted seeker of beauty in both traditional and unexpected forms, she offers the world her passion for getting to the heart of the matter, alongside her faith in the human spirit.
Zohare Jacobi ~ Tevet
Zohare Jacobi is a Jewish folk practitioner, educator, Diasporist, and writer from a line of superstitious mothers, healers, and candlemakers. Jacobi founded Jewitches in 2020 for all those seeking Jewish magic. You can find their work on Substack, listen to the Jewitches podcast wherever you stream, and follow them @jewitches.
Sage C.R.(they/he) is a BIPOC Jewish artist and community organizer who believes in the power of storytelling, care, and collective transformation. Their work centers joy, belonging, and resilience, with a soft spot for holding space for folks navigating layered identities and dreaming into freer futures.
Sage C.R. ~ Shvat
Rachel Chang ~ Adar
Rachel Chang is a queer mixed-race Chinese-American Jew, and a musician, songleader, and educator. She has been pulled toward music for as long as she can remember, finding voice in it, finding power in it, learning to channel it to move energy and shape moments.
erica riddick ~ Nisan
erica riddick is an ambi-brained creative thinker, multi-media storyteller, and ritualist driven by playful curious engagement. erica is the founding director of Jews of Color Sanctuary and infuses intuitive analytic, design development, and project management wisdom from a career in architecture into everything they do.
Imani Chapman ~ Iyar
Dr. Imani Chapman works for a world in which her children and the young people in your lives can live wholly and safely into their full humanity in an equitable world where race is not a major determinant in health, wealth, legal, and educational outcomes.
Photo by Frederick Douglass Perry
Sarah Nahar ~ Sivan
Sarah Nahar (she/Dr.) is a facilitator, nonviolent action trainer, and interspiritual theologian. Her doctoral work centers on ecological regeneration, community cultivation, and discard studies. Originally from Indiana (Potawatomi land), the decolonial feminist movement, solidarity accompaniment efforts, and capoeira enable her to travel the world and return home in ever widening loops.
Yavni Bar-Yam ~ Tamuz
Yavni Bar-Yam learns, listens, teaches, writes, curates sources, and daydreams. Sometimes, while mumbling over a sefer to himself, Yavni accidentally conjures creatures or people. He tries to find them homes. Sometimes a metaphor outgrows the raised bed in Yavni's bellybutton, so he tries to pick its fruit. Yavni misses you.
Rabbi Ariana Katz is a queer white Ashkenazi femme living in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the founding rabbi of Hinenu Baltimore, co-author of “For Times Such as These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year” with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, and co-host of God Crush, a podcast with Pastor Lura Groen.
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg is a queer white Ashkenazi femme teacher, writer, organizer and calendar-maker based on Dakota land in Minneapolis. She became a rabbi in order to learn diverse and nuanced histories, tell stories, and create spaces, ritual, and organizing that helps transform our relationships to past, present and future. www.fortimessuchasthesebook.com
Ariana Katz & Jessica Rosenberg ~ Av
May Ye ~ Elul
Rabbi May Ye (she/her) is a Chinese-American Jew from unceded Wabanaki land. A weaver of tradition and fashioner of new liturgy and ritual, she seeks to center and highlight the experiences of those who have been disenfranchised and marginalized from Judaism and Jewish spaces. A passionate activist, she explores how to decouple Judaism from Zionism and is an ardent supporter of Palestinian liberation. She currently lives and works on unceded Duwamish and Coast Salish land. She organizes with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and is honored to sit on JVP’s national rabbinical council.