What to Watch, Listen, & Read this Season

Eleyna recommends the following three resources: Watch, Listen, or Read

Watch: 

New resource from Bend The Arc on Dismantling Antisemitism Messaging Guide

This is an important new guide from Bend The Arc, that proposes new ways to talk about antisemitism in the current moment. 

Listen: 

TischPDX alumni and friends recently attended  Let My People Sing, a weekend of Jewish singing for liberation on the east coast and came home with this song, by Jewish artist, Aly Halpert. I invite you to listen here.

Podcast: Rabbi Josh Rose and I talk about Jewish community building in these times. Listen here

Read: 

Safety Through Solidarity
This is a new book out, written by local author Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, a researcher at Political Research Associates. It has  timely and good information to add to your list of resources and thinking around resisting current day antisemitism.

Alumni Support Program Report 2023

TischPDX’s Alumni Support Program (ASP) is a pilot program launched in 2022 with the support of Seeding Justice, the Women’s Giving Circle and the Jewish Liberation Fund.

Its primary goal has been to sustain TischPDX’s mission of bolstering the leadership of marginalized Jews in Portland, OR through supporting the 20+ graduates of TischPDX’s Emerging Jewish Leadership Incubator. 

In 2022, we were able to hold quarterly gatherings and provided microgrants of $550 to each alumni who completed our cohort program. We were able to support 17 alumni led projects and events led by TischPDX’s network of Jewish organizers and community builders through these microgrants.