This week’s episode is an excerpt of our recent Taste of Grounded &amp; Growing, in advance of the kick-off of the program later this month. This group-coaching, cohort experience is designed to help you develop or deepen your trauma-informed, Jewish social justice practice. You’ll do so through our S.H.E.M.A. Process, a series of practices integrating multi-disciplinary wisdom and knowledge, which provides a practical guide for a trauma-informed racial justice practice. This episode also features the reflections of a member of our first cohort about how this program–and April and Tracie’s teaching–have changed her life.Our early bird discount officially expired on July 6, but listeners of Jews Talk Racial Justice can still access the lower rate for BOTH of our summer offerings (Grounded &amp; Growing and Shift Your Life in 60 Days)! Use the code JTRJ22 at checkout. Registration closes this Friday July 15th!.Sign up for our second cohort of “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed Jewish social justice practice: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingEmail us at hello@joyousjustice.com if you have any questions or need more customization on the payment plan.Interested but registration for this cohort has closed? Fill out this form and check the box “I want to cultivate a trauma-informed Jewish social justice practice with Grounded &amp; Growing”: https://joyousjustice.com/interest-formWatch the episode (with the slides!) on Youtube: https://youtu.be/2PBScgTzr6YRegister for Shift Your Life in 60 Days: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/shiftFollow us on Instagram (@joyous.justice), Twitter, (@JoyousJustice), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365)Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice and join our mailing list: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work

This week’s episode is an excerpt of our recent Taste of<a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Grounded &amp; Growing</a>, in advance of the kick-off of the program later this month. This group-coaching, cohort experience is designed to help you develop or deepen your trauma-informed, Jewish social justice practice. You’ll do so through our S.H.E.M.A. Process, a series of practices integrating multi-disciplinary wisdom and knowledge, which provides a practical guide for a trauma-informed racial justice practice. This episode also features the reflections of a member of our first cohort about how this program–and April and Tracie’s teaching–have changed her life.Our early bird discount officially expired on July 6, but listeners of Jews Talk Racial Justice can still access the lower rate for BOTH of our summer offerings (Grounded &amp; Growing and Shift Your Life in 60 Days)! Use the code JTRJ22 at checkout. Registration closes this Friday July 15th!.Sign up for our second cohort of “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed Jewish social justice practice: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Email us at <a href="mailto:hello@joyousjustice.com">hello@joyousjustice.com</a> if you have any questions or need more customization on the payment plan.Interested but registration for this cohort has closed? Fill out this form and check the box “I want to cultivate a trauma-informed Jewish social justice practice with Grounded &amp; Growing”: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/interest-form" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/interest-form</a>Watch the episode (with the slides!) on Youtube: <a href="https://youtu.be/2PBScgTzr6Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/2PBScgTzr6Y</a>Register for Shift Your Life in 60 Days: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/shift" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/shift</a>Follow us on Instagram (@<a href="https://www.instagram.com/joyous.justice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">joyous.justice</a>), Twitter, (@<a href="https://twitter.com/joyousjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JoyousJustice</a>), or Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365</a>)Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice and join our mailing list: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>

Ep 97: Grounded & Growing: From our Joyous Justice Summer Series

Today, we’re giving you a preview of our program, Shift Your Life in 60 Days and sharing our “Taste of” event from this past Sunday. In this call, April gets into some juicy lessons about the importance of micro-movements and the magic that can happen when we clarify what matters most, support our well-being, and create an energetic pathway towards what we want when we’re in an intentional and supportive community (like that of Shift Your Life!). She also tells us about her experience with self-care and the key differences between goals and intentions. This is a program that has been brewing for a long time, AND we fast-tracked it because of the heaviness of the moment we’re in. PLUS, we’re extending our early bird discount for listeners of Jews Talk Racial Justice, not just for our Shift Your Life program, but ALSO for Grounded &amp; Growing. Use the code JTRJ22 at checkout. Registration closes on Friday July 15th!.Register for Shift Your Life in 60 Days: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/shiftWatch the episode (with the slides!) on Youtube: https://youtu.be/gN61Bwf9KGgSign up for our second cohort of “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed Jewish social justice practice: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingFollow us on Instagram (@joyous.justice), Twitter, (@JoyousJustice), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365)Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice and join our mailing list: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workLearn more about James Clear and his book Atomic Habits: An Easy &amp; Proven Way to Build Good Habits &amp; Break Bad Ones: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habitsThe Pareto Principle 'on steriods': “What’s the ONE THING you can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” - Gary KellerLearn more about the Pareto Principle here: https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-pareto-principle-the-8020-rule/

Today, we’re giving you a preview of our program, <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/shift" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shift Your Life in 60 Days</a> and sharing our “Taste of” event from this past Sunday. In this call, April gets into some juicy lessons about the importance of micro-movements and the magic that can happen when we clarify what matters most, support our well-being, and create an energetic pathway towards what we want when we’re in an intentional and supportive community (like that of Shift Your Life!). She also tells us about her experience with self-care and the key differences between goals and intentions. This is a program that has been brewing for a long time, AND we fast-tracked it because of the heaviness of the moment we’re in. PLUS, we’re extending our early bird discount for listeners of Jews Talk Racial Justice, not just for our Shift Your Life program, but ALSO for Grounded &amp; Growing. Use the code JTRJ22 at checkout. Registration closes on Friday July 15th!.Register for Shift Your Life in 60 Days: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/shift" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/shift</a>Watch the episode (with the slides!) on Youtube: <a href="https://youtu.be/gN61Bwf9KGg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/gN61Bwf9KGg</a>Sign up for our second cohort of “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed Jewish social justice practice: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Follow us on Instagram (@<a href="https://www.instagram.com/joyous.justice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">joyous.justice</a>), Twitter, (@<a href="https://twitter.com/joyousjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JoyousJustice</a>), or Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365</a>)Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice and join our mailing list: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Learn more about James Clear and his book Atomic Habits: An Easy &amp; Proven Way to Build Good Habits &amp; Break Bad Ones: <a href="https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits</a>The Pareto Principle 'on steriods': “What’s the ONE THING you can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” - Gary KellerLearn more about the Pareto Principle here: <a href="https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-pareto-principle-the-8020-rule/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-pareto-principle-the-8020-rule/</a>

Ep 96: Shift Your Life in 60 Days

This week, take a sneak peek of a recent session of our program “Grounded &amp; Growing.” After a lesson about accountability, April and Tracie field a participant's question. Navigating accountable relationships in the context of social justice work, especially when we’re in an oppressor group, can be complicated. How can we avoid burdening our under-resourced allies and still seek feedback? How can we decenter ourselves in allyship? How can we be mindful of how from whom and how we are getting the support we need in order to show up more effectively? Heads-up, we use the f-word in this episode.Follow us on Instagram (@joyous.justice), Twitter, (@JoyousJustice), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365)Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice and join our mailing list: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workSign up for our second cohort of “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our 6-week intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed social justice practice: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingDiscussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?

This week, take a sneak peek of a recent session of our program “Grounded &amp; Growing.” After a lesson about accountability, April and Tracie field a participant's question. Navigating accountable relationships in the context of social justice work, especially when we’re in an oppressor group, can be complicated. How can we avoid burdening our under-resourced allies and still seek feedback? How can we decenter ourselves in allyship? How can we be mindful of how from whom and how we are getting the support we need in order to show up more effectively? Heads-up, we use the f-word in this episode.Follow us on Instagram (@<a href="https://www.instagram.com/joyous.justice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">joyous.justice</a>), Twitter, (@<a href="https://twitter.com/joyousjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JoyousJustice</a>), or Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365</a>)Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice and join our mailing list: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Sign up for our second cohort of “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our 6-week intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed social justice practice: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Discussion and reflection questions:<ol><li>What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?</li><li>What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?</li><li>What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?</li><li>What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?</li></ol>

Ep 95: Asking about Asking: Decentering Yourself for Accountability

In a recent session of our program Grounded &amp; Growing, April and Tracie realized they have different practices in response to injustices. Though their actual behaviors diverge, what they have in common is that they are using intentional and strategic attention as a form of a social and racial justice practice. Because of our many different identities and experiences, our social justice practices are not one-size-fits-all. Some of us need to protect ourselves from re-traumatization. Others need to counter the numbness and dehumanization that has become default reactions to injustice. All of us can contribute to a world of justice, wholeness, and healing.Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workFind out more about our pilot program “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our 6-week intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed social justice practice: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingLearn more about the police killing of Stephon Clark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Stephon_Clark

In a recent session of our program Grounded &amp; Growing, April and Tracie realized they have different practices in response to injustices. Though their actual behaviors diverge, what they have in common is that they are using intentional and strategic attention as a form of a social and racial justice practice. Because of our many different identities and experiences, our social justice practices are not one-size-fits-all. Some of us need to protect ourselves from re-traumatization. Others need to counter the numbness and dehumanization that has become default reactions to injustice. All of us can contribute to a world of justice, wholeness, and healing.Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Find out more about our pilot program “Grounded &amp; Growing,” our 6-week intensive for cultivating a trauma-informed social justice practice: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Learn more about the police killing of Stephon Clark: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Stephon_Clark" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Stephon_Clark</a>

Ep 94: Attention as a Tool for a Racial and Social Justice Practice

As we celebrate Juneteenth, enter the summer and welcome the concluding months of the Shmita year, we think about all the lessons we can learn from this season. There are internal and external insights to be gained from the confluence of these holidays and this season. We can work to balance the desire to control different aspects of our lives with the benefits and need for loosening in our lives, as we work to expand and feel into joy and liberation this summer. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workListen to our 2021 Juneteenth episode, “Juneteenth and the Importance of Rest”: https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/8744570-ep-42-juneteenth-and-the-importance-of-restListen to our conversation about the shmita year, “The Shmita Year, the Year of Release”: https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/10674801-ep-90-the-shmita-year-the-year-of-release-mvpSee Tracie’s Gratidoodles at her Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/tracieguydecker/Listen to “Loosen Loosen” by Aly Halpert:https://soundcloud.com/aly-halpert/loosen-loosen

As we celebrate Juneteenth, enter the summer and welcome the concluding months of the Shmita year, we think about all the lessons we can learn from this season. There are internal and external insights to be gained from the confluence of these holidays and this season. We can work to balance the desire to control different aspects of our lives with the benefits and need for loosening in our lives, as we work to expand and feel into joy and liberation this summer. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Listen to our 2021 Juneteenth episode, “Juneteenth and the Importance of Rest”: <a href="https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/8744570-ep-42-juneteenth-and-the-importance-of-rest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/8744570-ep-42-juneteenth-and-the-importance-of-rest</a>Listen to our conversation about the shmita year, “The Shmita Year, the Year of Release”: <a href="https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/10674801-ep-90-the-shmita-year-the-year-of-release-mvp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/10674801-ep-90-the-shmita-year-the-year-of-release-mvp</a>See Tracie’s Gratidoodles at her Instagram account: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tracieguydecker/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/tracieguydecker/</a>Listen to “Loosen Loosen” by Aly Halpert: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/aly-halpert/loosen-loosen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/aly-halpert/loosen-loosen</a>

Ep 93: Lessons in Loosening: Juneteenth, Summer, and Shmita

This week, we’re bringing you Tracie and Joyous Justice’s wisdom from a recent presentation at a colloquium entitled “Jewish Responses to the Loneliness Epidemic.” These past few years have seen a layering of multiple pandemics: Covid exacerbated and made plain so many injustices. Grappling with the weight of the world’s sickness, grief, and trauma creates a specific kind of loneliness that compounds both inherited and personal trauma and has many of us believing we can only rely on ourselves. How can we counter isolation and our own scared-active urgency to do the holy, communal work of planting and tending the seeds that we want to grow, even when we’re not physically gathered together?Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead about “scared active” in Cherie Brown’s article “The Intersection of Racism and anti-Semitism: The ‘hook’”: https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-intersection-of-racism-and-anti-semitism-the-hook/Learn more about Aurora Levins Morales and read her poetry: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/

This week, we’re bringing you Tracie and Joyous Justice’s wisdom from a recent presentation at a colloquium entitled “Jewish Responses to the Loneliness Epidemic.” These past few years have seen a layering of multiple pandemics: Covid exacerbated and made plain so many injustices. Grappling with the weight of the world’s sickness, grief, and trauma creates a specific kind of loneliness that compounds both inherited and personal trauma and has many of us believing we can only rely on ourselves. How can we counter isolation and our own scared-active urgency to do the holy, communal work of planting and tending the seeds that we want to grow, even when we’re not physically gathered together?Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Read about “scared active” in Cherie Brown’s article “The Intersection of Racism and anti-Semitism: The ‘hook’”: <a href="https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-intersection-of-racism-and-anti-semitism-the-hook/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-intersection-of-racism-and-anti-semitism-the-hook/</a>Learn more about Aurora Levins Morales and read her poetry: <a href="http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/</a>

Ep 92: Countering Injustice-fueled Loneliness

In this week’s episode, April and Tracie talk about what it looks like when organizations and communities take on the difficult work of facing the honest truth about racism and oppression within their walls. There is so much shame and fear about problematic dynamics in our communities, it can prevent us from making real progress. Community or organizational change and healing take honesty, courage, and healing for individual members and leaders of those organizations. We dig into what we see in the context of the United States, the role of the good/bad binary in all of this, and why it’s so important to do our own internal healing in a world that has embedded oppression into our existence. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workFind out more about our SHEMA process/Grounded &amp; Growing course and join the waitlist:https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingLearn more about Imani Romney-Rose Chapman: https://imanistrategies.com/about/Learn more about Professor Barbara J. Love: https://www.barbarajlove.com/

In this week’s episode, April and Tracie talk about what it looks like when organizations and communities take on the difficult work of facing the honest truth about racism and oppression within their walls. There is so much shame and fear about problematic dynamics in our communities, it can prevent us from making real progress. Community or organizational change and healing take honesty, courage, and healing for individual members and leaders of those organizations. We dig into what we see in the context of the United States, the role of the good/bad binary in all of this, and why it’s so important to do our own internal healing in a world that has embedded oppression into our existence. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Find out more about our SHEMA process/Grounded &amp; Growing course and join the waitlist: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Learn more about Imani Romney-Rose Chapman: <a href="https://imanistrategies.com/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://imanistrategies.com/about/</a>Learn more about Professor Barbara J. Love: <a href="https://www.barbarajlove.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.barbarajlove.com/</a>

Ep 91: Honest Truth; Authentic Change 

We're rounding off this month's MVPs (most valuable podcasts) with a conversation about the Shmita year (if you haven't been commemorating it, don't worry! There's still time!). As we’re In our current pandemic-, racism-, and climate-change-ravaged times, April and Tracie talk about the Shmita Year, or Sabbatical Year, which we just began at Rosh Hashanah. How does one live out the values of the Shmita year when most of us are no longer working as farmers in the fields? They discuss how we can use this particular moment to lean into its themes, reconnect with the Earth, and find greater balance in what we endeavor to control and what we allow to happen organically. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workLearn more about the Shmita year here: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-is-shemita-the-sabbatical-year/Check out the 5 genders in the Talmud here: https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/gender-diversity-in-jewish-sacred-texts/Read more about Hayim Nahman Bialik here: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hayim-nahman-bialik/The essay “Halacha and Aggadah” can be found in Revealment and Concealment: Five Essays.Check out Judaism Unbound’s episode on the Shmita year here: https://www.judaismunbound.com/podcast/episode-287-shmita-projectListen to our episode on T'shuvah here: https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-53 Listen to our episode about Elul here:https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-49Learn more about Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife here: https://www.keshirahalev.com/aboutLearn more about Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen here: https://www.jewishtimes.com/tag/rabbi-elissa-sachs-kohen/

We're rounding off this month's MVPs (most valuable podcasts) with a conversation about the Shmita year (if you haven't been commemorating it, don't worry! There's still time!). As we’re In our current pandemic-, racism-, and climate-change-ravaged times, April and Tracie talk about the Shmita Year, or Sabbatical Year, which we just began at Rosh Hashanah. How does one live out the values of the Shmita year when most of us are no longer working as farmers in the fields? They discuss how we can use this particular moment to lean into its themes, reconnect with the Earth, and find greater balance in what we endeavor to control and what we allow to happen organically. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Learn more about the Shmita year here: <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-is-shemita-the-sabbatical-year/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-is-shemita-the-sabbatical-year/</a>Check out the 5 genders in the Talmud here: <a href="https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/gender-diversity-in-jewish-sacred-texts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/gender-diversity-in-jewish-sacred-texts/</a>Read more about Hayim Nahman Bialik here: <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hayim-nahman-bialik/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hayim-nahman-bialik/</a>The essay “Halacha and Aggadah” can be found in Revealment and Concealment: Five Essays.Check out Judaism Unbound’s episode on the Shmita year here: <a href="https://www.judaismunbound.com/podcast/episode-287-shmita-project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.judaismunbound.com/podcast/episode-287-shmita-project</a>Listen to our episode on T'shuvah here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-53" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-53</a> Listen to our episode about Elul here:<a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-49" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-49</a>Learn more about Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife here: <a href="https://www.keshirahalev.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.keshirahalev.com/about</a>Learn more about Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen here: <a href="https://www.jewishtimes.com/tag/rabbi-elissa-sachs-kohen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jewishtimes.com/tag/rabbi-elissa-sachs-kohen/</a>

Ep 90: The Shmita Year, the Year of Release (MVP)

This week, we’re airing an earlier MVP (most valuable podcast) where April and Tracie dig into and challenge the oft-repeated notion that proximity across a line of difference immunizes against bigotry or racism. In other words, the assertion “I can’t be racist, my (fill-in-the-blank) is Black." We discuss how the good/bad binary plays into this misconception about proximity and clarify the fact that power and privilege remain intact even in proximate relationships. Ultimately, we offer listeners thoughts on how to counter these normal impulses and ultimately move toward greater liberatory consciousness.Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-63 Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workWatch Bryan Stevenson’s talk about the power of proximity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RyAwZIHo4YFind our definition of “Jews of the Global Majority” here: https://joyousjustice.com/global-majority-jewsGet on our waitlist for Racial Justice Launch Pad: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/rjlp-waitlistLearn more about the Intercultural Development Inventory: https://idiinventory.com/

This week, we’re airing an earlier MVP (most valuable podcast) where April and Tracie dig into and challenge the oft-repeated notion that proximity across a line of difference immunizes against bigotry or racism. In other words, the assertion “I can’t be racist, my (fill-in-the-blank) is Black." We discuss how the good/bad binary plays into this misconception about proximity and clarify the fact that power and privilege remain intact even in proximate relationships. Ultimately, we offer listeners thoughts on how to counter these normal impulses and ultimately move toward greater liberatory consciousness.Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-63" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-63 </a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Watch Bryan Stevenson’s talk about the power of proximity: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RyAwZIHo4Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RyAwZIHo4Y</a>Find our definition of “Jews of the Global Majority” here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/global-majority-jews" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/global-majority-jews</a>Get on our waitlist for Racial Justice Launch Pad: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/rjlp-waitlist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/rjlp-waitlist</a>Learn more about the Intercultural Development Inventory: <a href="https://idiinventory.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://idiinventory.com/</a>

Ep 89: Proximity Alone is NOT Antiracism (MVP)

We’re bringing back an oldie but a VERY important goodie! In this week’s episode (or MVP, “most valuable podcast,”) April and Tracie discuss Eric Ward’s Skin in the Game point about the conditional whiteness of Ashkenazi Jews, unpacking (with both/and thinking) the reaction some Jews have regarding their whiteness. April uses her experiences as a United States citizen living in Senegal to explain how conditional privilege operates. Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode: www.joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-45Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Read Eric Ward’s Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism  here: https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalismEric Ward’s appearance with the Jewish Museum of Maryland: https://jewishmuseummd.org/events/the-root-of-white-supremacy/Check more about Robin DiAngelo’s work here: https://www.robindiangelo.com/Listen to our episode on the importance of affinity spaces here: https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-43Read about the philosophy of The Good Place (careful, spoilers for the entire show): https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/26/20874217/the-good-place-series-finale-season-4-moral-philosophy#:~:text=The%20Good%20Place%20has%20laid,do%20good%20front%20and%20center.

We’re bringing back an oldie but a VERY important goodie! In this week’s episode (or MVP, “most valuable podcast,”) April and Tracie discuss Eric Ward’s Skin in the Game point about the conditional whiteness of Ashkenazi Jews, unpacking (with both/and thinking) the reaction some Jews have regarding their whiteness. April uses her experiences as a United States citizen living in Senegal to explain how conditional privilege operates. Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode: <a href="http://www.joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-45" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-45</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Read Eric Ward’s Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism  here: <a href="https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism</a>Eric Ward’s appearance with the Jewish Museum of Maryland: <a href="https://jewishmuseummd.org/events/the-root-of-white-supremacy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jewishmuseummd.org/events/the-root-of-white-supremacy/</a>Check more about Robin DiAngelo’s work here: <a href="https://www.robindiangelo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.robindiangelo.com/</a>Listen to our episode on the importance of affinity spaces here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-43" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-43</a>Read about the philosophy of The Good Place (careful, spoilers for the entire show): <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/26/20874217/the-good-place-series-finale-season-4-moral-philosophy#:~:text=The%20Good%20Place%20has%20laid,do%20good%20front%20and%20center." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/26/20874217/the-good-place-series-finale-season-4-moral-philosophy#:~:text=The%20Good%20Place%20has%20laid,do%20good%20front%20and%20center.</a>

Ep. 88: Conditional Whiteness is Still Whiteness (MVP)

Each week, colleagues and friends April Baskin and Tracie Guy-Decker, discuss and unpack race and racism from our Jewish perspectives. You'll find April and Tracie have a lot in common and some important differences: April is a multiracial, Askenazi Jewish woman of color and Tracie is a white, Ashkenazi Jewish woman. Join us on this journey as we move together toward racial justice.

This week, we’re re-releasing an MVP --one of our Most Valuable Podcasts.  Way back in episode 2, April and Tracie spoke about better alternatives to some of the micro-aggressive things white-identified Jews often say to Jews of Color. So what happens if you overhear someone else saying a micro-aggressive question or comment? What can you do? What should you do? How can you interrupt the oppression without falling into saviorism? April and Tracie dig into this question and offer some strategies for both disrupting the oppression and supporting the person on the receiving end of it. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead more about what not to say to a Jew of Color in this Kveller article: https://www.kveller.com/what-not-to-say-to-jews-of-color-and-what-to-say-instead/Go back and listen to April and Tracie’s conversation in episode 2 wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1146023/5430970Find this episode’s discussion/reflection guide here:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-s2e19-when-you-overhear-microaggressions

This week, we’re re-releasing an MVP --one of our Most Valuable Podcasts.  Way back in episode 2, April and Tracie spoke about better alternatives to some of the micro-aggressive things white-identified Jews often say to Jews of Color. So what happens if you overhear someone else saying a micro-aggressive question or comment? What can you do? What should you do? How can you interrupt the oppression without falling into saviorism? April and Tracie dig into this question and offer some strategies for both disrupting the oppression and supporting the person on the receiving end of it. Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Read more about what not to say to a Jew of Color in this Kveller article: <a href="https://www.kveller.com/what-not-to-say-to-jews-of-color-and-what-to-say-instead/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kveller.com/what-not-to-say-to-jews-of-color-and-what-to-say-instead/</a>Go back and listen to April and Tracie’s conversation in episode 2 wherever you get your podcasts: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1146023/5430970" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1146023/5430970</a>Find this episode’s discussion/reflection guide here:  <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-s2e19-when-you-overhear-microaggressions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-s2e19-when-you-overhear-microaggressions</a>

Ep 87: When You Overhear Microaggressions (MVP)

As we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Jewish-community-designated Holocaust Memorial Day, we talk about balancing the incomprehensible nature of the Shoah with the need to continue to work to process and heal (comrehend?) the collective trauma of the Shoah and its intergenerational effects. What more would be possible if we were able to access capacity-expanding healing?  We also explore differences and commonalities between post-WWII German reparations and truth-telling and post-emancipation U.S. responses to the collective trauma of the centuries of forced enslavement of Black folks.Apply to our 6-week intensive for Cultivating a Trauma-Informed Jewish Social Justice Practice here (We only have a few spots left! Applications now due Friday April 29th):  https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingFind April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead Ta Nehisi-Coates’ “The Case for Reparations”: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/Learn more about Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Memorial Day: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-hashoah-holocaust-memorial-day/Find out more about Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem:  https://www.yadvashem.org/Read more about the reparations agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany and Menachem Begin’s protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_the_Federal_Republic_of_GermanyWatch or find more information about the show “Russian Doll” on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80211627Discussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?

As we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Jewish-community-designated Holocaust Memorial Day, we talk about balancing the incomprehensible nature of the Shoah with the need to continue to work to process and heal (comrehend?) the collective trauma of the Shoah and its intergenerational effects. What more would be possible if we were able to access capacity-expanding healing?  We also explore differences and commonalities between post-WWII German reparations and truth-telling and post-emancipation U.S. responses to the collective trauma of the centuries of forced enslavement of Black folks.Apply to our 6-week intensive for Cultivating a Trauma-Informed Jewish Social Justice Practice here (We only have a few spots left! Applications now due Friday April 29th):  <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Read Ta Nehisi-Coates’ “The Case for Reparations”: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/</a>Learn more about Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Memorial Day: <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-hashoah-holocaust-memorial-day/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-hashoah-holocaust-memorial-day/</a>Find out more about Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem:  <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.yadvashem.org/</a>Read more about the reparations agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany and Menachem Begin’s protest: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany</a>Watch or find more information about the show “Russian Doll” on Netflix: <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80211627" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.netflix.com/title/80211627</a>Discussion and reflection questions:<ol><li>What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?</li><li>What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?</li><li>What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?</li><li>What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?</li></ol>

Ep 86: Facing the Unfaceable: Yom HaShoah, Reparations, and Trauma-healing

This Passover, there was an ongoing–sometimes heated–conversation on social media about singing the Negro spiritual “Let My People Go” during the Passover seder. In our conversation this week, April explains why she will continue to sing this song at her Seder table and we get into the nuance and the nitty-gritty of the debate around appropriation vs. appreciation (and we add in a few more steps that folks often miss). When we become aware something we’re doing is appropriative, how can we navigate acknowledging the impact of appropriation when we feel deeply invested in the practice in question? How can we open ourselves to the opportunity to invite in greater complexity, nuance, and compassion and avoid either shutting down or defensively protecting the way things have always been? Apply to our Grounded &amp; Growing intensive here (We have a few spots left! Applications accepted until April 29 or until all spots are filled): https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingFind April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead Shekhiynah Larks’ op-ed, “Rethinking ‘Go Down Moses’ at the Passover Seder”: https://globaljews.org/jewishand/its-time-to-retire-go-down-moses-at-passover-seder/?fbclid=IwAR1y2Wc-NX4nwcG6enaFn5ctTzoZ3Yy7SgBKBQb9rPRkQwurL79y8AiBh3UWatch Titus’s Geisha song from The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238Lcjbecb4Read more about cultural appropriation in yoga: https://yogainternational.com/article/view/how-we-can-work-together-to-avoid-cultural-appropriation-in-yogaRead more about the Passover Song Acknowledgement Project (PDF): https://templeisraelgreenfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Song-Acknowledgement-Handout_Temple-Israel.pdfFollow Rabbi Becky Silverstein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rabbibeckyListen to our episode about intellectual intimacy: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1146023/9993052-ep-74-intellectual-intimacy-and-interdependent-intellectual-independenceDiscussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?

This Passover, there was an ongoing–sometimes heated–conversation on social media about singing the Negro spiritual “Let My People Go” during the Passover seder. In our conversation this week, April explains why she will continue to sing this song at her Seder table and we get into the nuance and the nitty-gritty of the debate around appropriation vs. appreciation (and we add in a few more steps that folks often miss). When we become aware something we’re doing is appropriative, how can we navigate acknowledging the impact of appropriation when we feel deeply invested in the practice in question? How can we open ourselves to the opportunity to invite in greater complexity, nuance, and compassion and avoid either shutting down or defensively protecting the way things have always been?  Apply to our Grounded &amp; Growing intensive here (We have a few spots left! Applications accepted until April 29 or until all spots are filled): <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Read Shekhiynah Larks’ op-ed, “Rethinking ‘Go Down Moses’ at the Passover Seder”: <a href="https://globaljews.org/jewishand/its-time-to-retire-go-down-moses-at-passover-seder/?fbclid=IwAR1y2Wc-NX4nwcG6enaFn5ctTzoZ3Yy7SgBKBQb9rPRkQwurL79y8AiBh3U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://globaljews.org/jewishand/its-time-to-retire-go-down-moses-at-passover-seder/?fbclid=IwAR1y2Wc-NX4nwcG6enaFn5ctTzoZ3Yy7SgBKBQb9rPRkQwurL79y8AiBh3U</a>Watch Titus’s Geisha song from The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238Lcjbecb4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238Lcjbecb4</a>Read more about cultural appropriation in yoga: <a href="https://yogainternational.com/article/view/how-we-can-work-together-to-avoid-cultural-appropriation-in-yoga" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://yogainternational.com/article/view/how-we-can-work-together-to-avoid-cultural-appropriation-in-yoga</a>Read more about the Passover Song Acknowledgement Project (PDF): <a href="https://templeisraelgreenfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Song-Acknowledgement-Handout_Temple-Israel.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://templeisraelgreenfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Song-Acknowledgement-Handout_Temple-Israel.pdf</a>Follow Rabbi Becky Silverstein on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/rabbibecky" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/rabbibecky</a>Listen to our episode about intellectual intimacy: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1146023/9993052-ep-74-intellectual-intimacy-and-interdependent-intellectual-independence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1146023/9993052-ep-74-intellectual-intimacy-and-interdependent-intellectual-independence</a>Discussion and reflection questions:<ol><li>What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?</li><li>What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?</li><li>What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?</li><li>What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?</li></ol>

Ep 85: Cultural appropriation & should we let go of “Let My People Go”?

This Passover, we’re noticing that folks are quick to identify with the Israelites, but what about the circumstances where we’re in the role of the Egyptians? How can we work to dismantle the binary of good and bad, victim and villain and move toward greater wholeness? Can we invite the intervention that will alter the circumstances and lead to freedom? Can we do it without drowning in the proverbial sea? A first step is to build courageous reflection into our Passover practice that acknowledges enslavement or enslavement-like conditions are present in our world right now.CW: Mentions of sexual assault, enslavement, violence, and dehumanization.Apply to our Grounded &amp; Growing intensive here (deadline extended to fill the final few slots): https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingFind April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workListen to our episode about the oppression scale and the emotional thermometer: https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/10037771-ep-75-whoopi-goldberg-the-oppression-scale-and-the-emotional-thermometerLearn more about Shifra and Puah: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/birthings-and-beginnings/Read more about restorative justice: https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-heck-restorative-justice-heather-wolpert-gawronDiscussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?What feelings and sensations are arising, and where in your body do you feel them?

This Passover, we’re noticing that folks are quick to identify with the Israelites, but what about the circumstances where we’re in the role of the Egyptians? How can we work to dismantle the binary of good and bad, victim and villain and move toward greater wholeness? Can we invite the intervention that will alter the circumstances and lead to freedom? Can we do it without drowning in the proverbial sea? A first step is to build courageous reflection into our Passover practice that acknowledges enslavement or enslavement-like conditions are present in our world right now.CW: Mentions of sexual assault, enslavement, violence, and dehumanization.Apply to our Grounded &amp; Growing intensive here (deadline extended to fill the final few slots): <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Listen to our episode about the oppression scale and the emotional thermometer: <a href="https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/10037771-ep-75-whoopi-goldberg-the-oppression-scale-and-the-emotional-thermometer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jewstalkracialjustice.buzzsprout.com/1146023/10037771-ep-75-whoopi-goldberg-the-oppression-scale-and-the-emotional-thermometer</a>Learn more about Shifra and Puah: <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/birthings-and-beginnings/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/birthings-and-beginnings/</a>Read more about restorative justice: <a href="https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-heck-restorative-justice-heather-wolpert-gawron" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-heck-restorative-justice-heather-wolpert-gawron</a>Discussion and reflection questions:<ol><li>What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?</li><li>What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?</li><li>What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?</li><li>What feelings and sensations are arising, and where in your body do you feel them?</li></ol>

Ep 84: What if we’re the Egyptians?

As we approach Passover 5782, we’re thinking about the tension inherent in commemorating a moment of acute urgency with practices that require a lot of time, intention, and planning. The Passover story contains multiple moments when our ancestors and predecessors displayed both faith and radical imagination, but when ritual becomes rigid, it can limit beliefs and imagination. April and Tracie investigate how we can use the Passover holiday, ritual, and greater awareness, to nurture and apply our own radical imagination toward liberation. Learn more about Grounded &amp; Growing or apply for the intensive here: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growingCheck out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-82Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workLearn more about the Midrash about Nachshon: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2199147/jewish/Nachshon-ben-Aminadav-The-Man-Who-Jumped-Into-the-Sea.htmRead more about the history of the four-minute mile: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-four-minute-mileLearn about the Ko’ach Fellowship: https://joyousjustice.com/koach-fellowship

As we approach Passover 5782, we’re thinking about the tension inherent in commemorating a moment of acute urgency with practices that require a lot of time, intention, and planning. The Passover story contains multiple moments when our ancestors and predecessors displayed both faith and radical imagination, but when ritual becomes rigid, it can limit beliefs and imagination. April and Tracie investigate how we can use the Passover holiday, ritual, and greater awareness, to nurture and apply our own radical imagination toward liberation. Learn more about Grounded &amp; Growing or apply for the intensive here: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/grounded-and-growing</a>Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-82" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-82</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Learn more about the Midrash about Nachshon: <a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2199147/jewish/Nachshon-ben-Aminadav-The-Man-Who-Jumped-Into-the-Sea.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2199147/jewish/Nachshon-ben-Aminadav-The-Man-Who-Jumped-Into-the-Sea.htm</a>Read more about the history of the four-minute mile: <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-four-minute-mile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-four-minute-mile</a>Learn about the Ko’ach Fellowship: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/koach-fellowship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/koach-fellowship</a>

Ep 83: Beyond the Brisket: Creating a Liberatory Passover Practice 

This week, we’re bringing you our conversation from our live event on March 23. If we’re being real here (which we ALWAYS are), we know that many of us (especially in the Jewish community) are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and hurt by the state of the world. April and Tracie (and a couple of amazing community members!) give us some helpful framings and tips for processing and moving through our hurt, process our emotions, and get through to the other side. And spoiler alert: you don’t have to suffer in order to powerfully show up for justice!Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-82Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead more about the book Conscious Community: A Guide to Inner Work by Kalonymus Kalman Shapira and translated by Andrea Cohen-Kiener: https://bookshop.org/books/conscious-community-a-guide-to-inner-work/9781568218977Learn more about the Inside and Out Wisdom and Action Project: https://www.insideoutwisdomandaction.org/who-we-are

This week, we’re bringing you our conversation from our live event on March 23. If we’re being real here (which we ALWAYS are), we know that many of us (especially in the Jewish community) are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and hurt by the state of the world. April and Tracie (and a couple of amazing community members!) give us some helpful framings and tips for processing and moving through our hurt, process our emotions, and get through to the other side. And spoiler alert: you don’t have to suffer in order to powerfully show up for justice!Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode: <a href=" https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-82" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-82</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Read more about the book Conscious Community: A Guide to Inner Work by Kalonymus Kalman Shapira and translated by Andrea Cohen-Kiener: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/conscious-community-a-guide-to-inner-work/9781568218977" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/books/conscious-community-a-guide-to-inner-work/9781568218977</a>Learn more about the Inside and Out Wisdom and Action Project: <a href="https://www.insideoutwisdomandaction.org/who-we-are" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.insideoutwisdomandaction.org/who-we-are</a>

Ep 82: Showing up for justice when life gets hard (Live)

We cover a LOT of ground in today’s conversation, where we get curious about what prevents some folks and groups from accessing joy. We talk about Black joy, the whiteness of white Jews and what often makes embracing joy difficult (and the impact of the historical middle agent role), individual and collective safety, and imagining our liberated selves and living into that. What would it look like for white Jews choose the side of liberation over whiteness?Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-81Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workListen to this year’s Purim episode here:  https://www.joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-80Learn more about NCJW, the National Council of Jewish Women: https://www.ncjw.org/Learn more about Black joy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQlEpjZXfRURead more about Thich Nhat Hanh:  https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/

We cover a LOT of ground in today’s conversation, where we get curious about what prevents some folks and groups from accessing joy. We talk about Black joy, the whiteness of white Jews and what often makes embracing joy difficult (and the impact of the historical middle agent role), individual and collective safety, and imagining our liberated selves and living into that. What would it look like for white Jews choose the side of liberation over whiteness?Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-81" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-81</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a> Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Listen to this year’s Purim episode here:  <a href="https://www.joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-80" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-80</a>Learn more about NCJW, the National Council of Jewish Women: <a href="https://www.ncjw.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ncjw.org/</a>Learn more about Black joy:  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQlEpjZXfRU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQlEpjZXfRU</a>Read more about Thich Nhat Hanh:  <a href="https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/</a>

Ep 81: Middle Agent Status, Alternatives to Whiteness, and Radical Imagination

Inspired by the holiday of Purim, April and Tracie use the practice of giving mishloach manot or Purim baskets, to unpack the difference between intention and impact. (Who knew you could learn so much from fruit-filled cookies?) They also interrogate the relationship between Vashti and Esther, and use them as a metaphor for differently-positioned Jewish Leaders of Color today. The megillah (Scroll of Esther) positions them as competitors, but we imagine what it would look like if they recognized they have more to gain by working together and rejecting the externally-imposed division between them. Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode: https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-80Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead more about the practice of giving mishloach manot: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/purim-gifts/Join our private Facebook group, Joyously Pursuing Racial Justice: https://www.facebook.com/groups/590922415522750Get your tickets for the LIVE Jews Talk Racial Justice event on 3/23: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/live-podcast-tickets

Inspired by the holiday of Purim, April and Tracie use the practice of giving mishloach manot or Purim baskets, to unpack the difference between intention and impact. (Who knew you could learn so much from fruit-filled cookies?) They also interrogate the relationship between Vashti and Esther, and use them as a metaphor for differently-positioned Jewish Leaders of Color today. The megillah (Scroll of Esther) positions them as competitors, but we imagine what it would look like if they recognized they have more to gain by working together and rejecting the externally-imposed division between them. Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-80" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-80</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Read more about the practice of giving mishloach manot: <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/purim-gifts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/purim-gifts/</a>Join our private Facebook group, Joyously Pursuing Racial Justice: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/590922415522750" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/590922415522750</a>Get your tickets for the LIVE Jews Talk Racial Justice event on 3/23: <a href="https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/live-podcast-tickets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/live-podcast-tickets</a>

Ep 80: Cookies, Impact, and False Competition

April and Tracie think about some of the lessons of Purim: hidden identities, the power of 'no,' the power of being in the right place, the importance of joy, and the links between joy and liberation.Find discussion questions for this episode: joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-79Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Resources and notes:In the Talmud, Megillah 7b:7, it says "Rava said: A person is obligated to become intoxicated with wine on Purim until he is so intoxicated that he does not know how to distinguish between cursed is Haman and blessed is Mordecai." (William Davidson English edition, courtesy sefaria.org)Peninei Halakhah, Zemanim Chapter 14:1: "When Adar arrives, joy increases."Learn about Arthur Waskow’s book, Seasons of Our Joy: https://jps.org/books/seasons-of-our-joy/

April and Tracie think about some of the lessons of Purim: hidden identities, the power of 'no,' the power of being in the right place, the importance of joy, and the links between joy and liberation. Find discussion questions for this episode: <a href="http://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-79" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-79</a> Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Resources and notes:In the Talmud, Megillah 7b:7, it says "Rava said: A person is obligated to become intoxicated with wine on Purim until he is so intoxicated that he does not know how to distinguish between cursed is Haman and blessed is Mordecai." (William Davidson English edition, courtesy <a href="https://www.sefaria.org/?home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sefaria.org</a>)Peninei Halakhah, Zemanim Chapter 14:1: "When Adar arrives, joy increases."Learn about Arthur Waskow’s book, Seasons of Our Joy: <a href="https://jps.org/books/seasons-of-our-joy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jps.org/books/seasons-of-our-joy/</a>

Ep 79: On Purim, Joy, and Liberation (25 Reprise)

With all that’s going on in the world right now (and since we’re in the middle of two (2!) months of Adar, we thought it would be good to reprise Episode 10 from the conclusion of election season. Tracie asks April for advice on working through the negative emotions that sometimes accompany justice work. They unpack the ways we've been taught to associate anger or rage with justice work (and anxiety with intelligence), and April shares suggestions for achieving the positive effects of BOTH feeling your feelings AND cultivating joy and presence.Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-78Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workWatch our free masterclass to learn more about Racial Justice Launch Pad: bit.ly/RJLPMC53minWatch Thich Nhat Hanh’s video “How to deal with strong emotions”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJX8WkKbPf8Read more about Rabbi David Jaffe and his book, Changing the World from the Inside Out: https://www.rabbidavidjaffe.com/davids-book/

With all that’s going on in the world right now (and since we’re in the middle of two (2!) months of Adar, we thought it would be good to reprise Episode 10 from the conclusion of election season. Tracie asks April for advice on working through the negative emotions that sometimes accompany justice work. They unpack the ways we've been taught to associate anger or rage with justice work (and anxiety with intelligence), and April shares suggestions for achieving the positive effects of BOTH feeling your feelings AND cultivating joy and presence.Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-78" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-78</a>Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at <a href="http://www.jewstalkracialjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com</a>Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/</a>Support the work our Jewish Black &amp; Native woman-led vision for collective liberation here: <a href="https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-work</a>Watch our free masterclass to learn more about Racial Justice Launch Pad: <a href="https://bit.ly/RJLPMC53min?fbclid=IwAR0DEkb_ncUy8FswigmXNuhg3l4KsycQ-VziDrA968XknwIHs9Hh094pR4s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/RJLPMC53min</a>Watch Thich Nhat Hanh’s video “How to deal with strong emotions”: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJX8WkKbPf8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJX8WkKbPf8</a>Read more about Rabbi David Jaffe and his book, Changing the World from the Inside Out: <a href="https://www.rabbidavidjaffe.com/davids-book/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rabbidavidjaffe.com/davids-book/</a>

Ep 78: Feeling Rage, Finding Joy (Reprise of Ep 10)

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