Wed Mar 03, 2010 at 17:34:33 PM EST
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( - promoted by Sheila Webb-Halpern)
My posts on JSpot are often more about growing up in Pontiac, Michigan and my love for the Great Lakes State than about anything Jewish. For the most part, my interest in organizing comes from growing up around the labor movement, hanging out on UAW picket lines with my Uncle, and having a Dad who was a Teamster. It wasn't until I began organizing with congregations that I connected Judaism to organizing.
I knew it was more than just a coincidence that so many Jews were part of the labor movement and other social movements in the US, but it wasn't until I heard how explicitly connected religion and social change were for leaders in the churches I was organizing that I began to ask myself what Judaism had to say. So I did what any good Jew might do, I bought some books. I dove into learning about Judaism, which baffeled my parents, and started attending synagogue, which they thought they'd saved me from in my childhood. Eventually I decided I wanted to bring together these two pieces of myself: organizing and being Jewish. I moved to New York to work with Jewish Funds for Justice over a year ago and am now part of launching the Community Organizing Residency, COR. COR is a six-month, paid residency for people from different faith backgrounds who want to make community organizing their profession. More information about COR is below and on the website: rootedinfaith.org |
| Rachel Feldman :: Putting the Jewish into my Organizing |
Got faith? Want Social Change?
Here's your opportunity to launch a social justice career rooted in faith. Residents in the Community Organizing Residency (COR) will gain social justice experience working with leading organizing groups in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. The residencies will begin July 29, 2010 and end February 2, 2011. Residents will receive a salary and healthcare benefits. For more information, visit rootedinfaith.org or contact Rachel Feldman at rfeldman@jewishjustice.org. To apply, complete and application by April 2, 2010
COR is an initiative of the Jewish Funds for Justice, with program support from the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary, and the Jewish Organizing Initiative. |
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