Join the Avodah/AJWS alumni partnership (and friends!) for the 2nd of two sessions, where we will talk about our own value systems and how our personal philanthropy - however small - can offer a meaningful and strategic way to put our values into action for the greater good.

The series will be facilitated by Lauren Brownstein, a D.C.-based consultant with over fifteen years of experience in the field of philanthropy and deep knowledge of the organized Jewish community.

Light supper will be provided from 6:30-7:00.

RSVP to Jessie Posilkin at jposilkin@ajws.org or 202-842-1178

At the Labor Seder, nearly 200 people gathered to learn about DC's disenfranchisement and how to take action. Join JUFJ in bringing a scaled-down version to the greater Washington Jewish community. At this next working meeting, we'll design program elements to bring to DC-area synagogues and other Jewish communities.
 
Contact info@jufj.org to RSVP.

For twelve weeks this summer, JUFJ members will gather to explore how race, class, and gender & sexual identity intersect with and affect our identities as Jews and our work for social justice. JUFJ is proud to be able to offer this new class for the first time.

We will meet for twelve consecutive Wednesday evenings, beginning on June 25 and ending on September 10; each session will last two hours. Advance readings will include works by Judith Plaskow, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Audre Lorde, Paul Kivel, and many others. Classes will be discussion-based, facilitated by participants, and held in participants' homes around the DC area.

This summer, Justice and Jewish Thought can accommodate 12-15 participants.

Applications are due by Sunday, June 8.

For more information or to request an application form, email info@jufj.org.

Join the Avodah/AJWS alumni partnership (and friends!) for the 2nd of two sessions, where we will talk about our own value systems and how our personal philanthropy - however small - can offer a meaningful and strategic way to put our values into action for the greater good.

The series will be facilitated by Lauren Brownstein, a D.C.-based consultant with over fifteen years of experience in the field of philanthropy and deep knowledge of the organized Jewish community.

Light supper will be provided from 6:30-7:00.

RSVP to Jessie Posilkin at jposilkin@ajws.org or 202-842-1178

Save the date for a participatory working meeting to begin to create antiracist guidelines for JUFJ. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

For more info, contact info@jufj.org

Join the Avodah/AJWS alumni partnership (and friends!) for the 2nd of two sessions, where we will talk about our own value systems and how our personal philanthropy - however small - can offer a meaningful and strategic way to put our values into action for the greater good.

The series will be facilitated by Lauren Brownstein, a D.C.-based consultant with over fifteen years of experience in the field of philanthropy and deep knowledge of the organized Jewish community.

Light supper will be provided from 6:30-7:00.

RSVP to Jessie Posilkin at jposilkin@ajws.org or 202-842-1178

Tikkun Leil Shabbat is a songful, soulful Shabbat service featuring a teaching about a social justice issue and followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner. Please bring a vegetarian dish to share.

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Join the Avodah/AJWS alumni partnership (and friends!) for the 2nd of two sessions, where we will talk about our own value systems and how our personal philanthropy - however small - can offer a meaningful and strategic way to put our values into action for the greater good.

The series will be facilitated by Lauren Brownstein, a D.C.-based consultant with over fifteen years of experience in the field of philanthropy and deep knowledge of the organized Jewish community.

Light supper will be provided from 6:30-7:00.

RSVP to Jessie Posilkin at jposilkin@ajws.org or 202-842-1178

Join the Avodah/AJWS alumni partnership (and friends!) for the 2nd of two sessions, where we will talk about our own value systems and how our personal philanthropy - however small - can offer a meaningful and strategic way to put our values into action for the greater good.

The series will be facilitated by Lauren Brownstein, a D.C.-based consultant with over fifteen years of experience in the field of philanthropy and deep knowledge of the organized Jewish community.

Light supper will be provided from 6:30-7:00.

RSVP to Jessie Posilkin at jposilkin@ajws.org or 202-842-1178

The AVODAH-AJWS partnership is pleased to offer an intensive training to prepare you to use your talent and passion to serve on the board of directors of a non-profit organization.

If you are in your 20's or 30's, and you currently serve on a board of directors or hope to do so in the near future, we invite you to submit an application for this training. It offers a detailed overview of board service, an opportunity to gain specific skills related to this form of leadership, and the support that is sometimes needed to overcome some of the challenges of this kind of changemaking.

The course is open to people in their 20's and 30's living in the Washington, DC area who currently serve (or would like to serve) on the board of a non-profit organization - Jewish or secular.

+ Participants will pay a $36 materials fee.

+ Email Jessie Posilkin at jposilkin@avodah.net to request an application. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Join the Avodah/AJWS alumni partnership (and friends!) for the 2nd of two sessions, where we will talk about our own value systems and how our personal philanthropy - however small - can offer a meaningful and strategic way to put our values into action for the greater good.

The series will be facilitated by Lauren Brownstein, a D.C.-based consultant with over fifteen years of experience in the field of philanthropy and deep knowledge of the organized Jewish community.

Light supper will be provided from 6:30-7:00.

RSVP to Jessie Posilkin at jposilkin@ajws.org or 202-842-1178

Join us! Learn about the campaign to establish a multi-cultural worker center in DC's Ward 5. We'll work to define JUFJ's role in the campaign and plan our involvment as a coalition partner in specific campaign actions.

Please RSVP to Darya at info@jufj.org

Building on past meetings and conversations, JUFJ members will gather to consider our vision for an antiracist DC area and the ways in which JUFJ's work can help build that new reality.

Participants from JUFJ's race issues workshop and subsequent working group meetings are particularly encouraged to attend, but all are welcome.

Tikkun Leil Shabbat is a songful, soulful Shabbat service featuring a teaching about a social justice issue and followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner. Please bring a vegetarian dish to share.

Come together for an Interfaith Text Study with DC Jobs with Justice, Jews United for Justice, and the Washington DC JCC. The evening will bring together leaders of the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu faiths to discuss the topic of workers' rights. In particular, the texts and discussion will focus on the rights and challenges of workers in care-giving facilities such as nursing homes, assisted living, and group homes. Hear what the panelists have to say and then join your neighbors in a thought-provoking discussion on the topic.

The event is free and open to the community, and we hope participants of all faiths will join us in learning and discussion on what each tradition says about social justice, as well as how we can further it in our local community this summer.

The Interfaith Text Study is a prelude to Labor on the Bimah - and we hope to see you there!

• Are European, Ashkenazic Jews white? How do some of us identify ourselves? - and how are we perceived?
• When it comes to solidarity with communities of color, are white Jews any different from other white people?
• How has our perceived race privileged us, regardless of how we choose to self-identify? 
• How does the experience of race differ for Jews of color, Jews who are perceived as white, and Jews who fall somewhere in between?

Join a facilitated dialogue about the Jewish community's - and our own individual - complicated relationship to race. Open to all - please RSVP to info@jufj.org.