Exploring how Latinx Jewish families in the Bay navigate their multicultural, multilingual, racial, and intersectional identities as they make educational and community-engagement choices for their children.
2021-2022 Grants
Exploring how older JoC age 50+ navigate intersectional identities at times of social and political unrest
Examining the historical factors shaping Jewish adoption of Asian children and the contemporary experiences and identities of Jewish Asian adoptees.
Using oral history methodology to examine the customs and practices of Jews of Color in the United States during pregnancy, birth, pregnancy loss, abortion, and postpartum.
Building better relationships between Ashkenazi Jews in Hawai’i and the Kānaka Maoli community, while confronting our complex relationships as Jews to the land, and by extension, our ideas of wealth and identity.
LUNAR: The Jewish Asian Film Project is providing individualized strategy and coaching work to support leadership transition
The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore is supporting their new JoC Engagement Fellow
Uri L'Tzedek is collaborating with Jewtina y. Co to bring JoC leaders together at a 4-day immersive leadership retreat and cohort experience
Kavod v'Nichum is supporting JoC research to learn how JoC engage in Jewish end-of-life rituals and practices including Chevrot Kadisha, funerals and burials, and grief and mourning rituals, and support the creation of new JoC chevra kadisha resources
Kamochah, fiscally sponsored by JFNA, is creating spaces where Black Orthodox Jews can embrace their racial/cultural identity and their religious observance
JQ International is elevating the LGBTQ+ Iranian experience (93% of whom self-identify as JoC) for a Persian Pride national event and fellowship program in Los Angeles, New York, and the Bay Area
The Forward is sponsoring JoC authors of op-eds, JoC journalists and independent reporters, and providing professional development support for their JoC Editor-at-Large
JOIN for Justice is providing JoC executive coaching for JOIN’s new co-Executive Director, a Korean American Jew who brings decades of nonprofit management experience and wishes to deepen the intersection of JoC identity in this work
Theater J's "Expanding the Canon," a project of Eldavitch DCJCC, is convening JoC rabbis, cantors, and thought leaders to guide 7 JoC playwrights through a curriculum of Jewish life, liturgy, history, and literature at an immersive 3-day Beit Midrash
Linke Fligl, fiscally sponsored by Allied Media Projects, is providing queer JoC leadership with a 5-day immersive farm gathering, sharing out experiences as LGBTQI+ JoC, and building a deeper connection to the outdoors
Rimonim Liturgy Project, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, is amplifying 10 JoC artists whose work is included in Rimonim's collection of Jewish liturgy, poetry, and art
Mosaic Visions organized the “Spirit of Humanity | Ein Sof Virtual Festival,” a cultural and artistic festival that showcased Jews of Color through art, music, poetry, writing, songs, and short films
The Jews of Color Mishpacha Project created and ran the "We Are Family" JoCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews) Shabbaton at the Pearlstone Retreat Center
SHIN DC will establish leadership development for a JoC executive director
The Black Jewish Liberation Collective will continue to provide leadership support for Black Jews
Sandra Caplan Community Beit Din will be developing a mentorship program for Jews of Color for during and after the conversion process
JALSA will be supporting a JoC organizer who has developed a leadership program for Jews of Color in Boston
Lab/Shul will be supporting the leadership of JoC artist Luis Burgos in leading a JoC-centered virtual national Passover seder
Hosting a Sigd celebratory and educational event in Portland, Oregon led by an Ethiopian Jewish creative director
Expanding LUNAR’s multimedia storytelling project to include Asian Jewish community gatherings
Supporting outreach to Jews of Color and the deaf community for “The Kindness Project,” a class and spirituality group led by the first hard of hearing African American rabbi in Illinois
Supporting Black JOC actors and teachers to bring more Black American plays to Jewish day schools
Fostering a more racially equitable and just Southern Jewish community
Developing “Jewfro,” a JoC graphic novel for children featuring Jewish characters of color
Supporting JoC op-eds and JoC independent reporters to amplify JoC voices, leaders, and journalists at The Forward
Supporting “The Workshop,” a JoC fellowship for artists and culture-makers to revitalize Jewish art and ritual by centering Jews of Color
JoC series on mind-body resiliency and embodied practice concerning conversations on safety and security in Jewish communal settings
Supporting monthly gatherings for a JoC clergy affinity space to foster holistic wellness, solidarity, and mutual support for Kohenet Priestesses of Color