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4 Sessions | September 17, 24, October 1, 8 |
Tuesdays 7:00-8:30 pm ET | Virtual

Course Instructor: April Rosenblum, author of The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere and To The New Jewish Left

Course Description: The Jewish Left is contained by invisible walls that prevent us from fully claiming our power and steering our people in a new direction. We aren’t just up against obvious things, like the entanglement of many Jews in privilege and white supremacy, or well-funded Right-wing strategies. We are held in place by limitations dreamed up for us more than a century ago by the European Left.

To rise to all the challenges we face – including the immediate challenge of seeking Palestinian freedom and the imminent challenges to democracy and the earth’s climate – it is essential that we break out of these limits so that we can access our full power and help our people play our strongest, most liberatory role. Over four sessions, we’ll use April’s new MA research, the wisdom of the organizing tradition, analysis of Christian dominance, and participants’ own reflections to make visible what has been holding us back.

This course is for Jewish Leftists who want to strengthen their leadership and critical thinking skills and come out with a bolder sense of Jews’ place in movements and in the world.

All sessions will be recorded and made available to registrants.

Pre-Course Reading: Participants are asked to read or listen to “To the New Jewish Left” (2021)

Course Sessions:

• Session #1 on 9/17: Setting the scene in the late 19th century, and grounding ourselves in organizing wisdom
• Session #2 on 9/24: Dueling visions for Jews in the first half of the 20th century, and how the expectations of the European Left created the mold for today
• Session #3 on 10/1: The creation of an Invisible Jewish Left in the 1960s, and why we don’t question existing theory
• Session #4 on 10/8: Building a 21st-century Jewish Left and moving beyond cultures of domination

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