5782 Contributors

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Keshira HaLev Fife ~ Tishrei

Keshira haLev Fife (she/they) is a Kohenet and a queer Jewish woman of Colour who serves as Executive Director of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, founder/co-leader of Kesher Pittsburgh, Program Director of the ALEPH Kesher Fellowship and Lead Facilitator for Keshet’s LGBTQ+ Jewish Youth of Colour programming. She also serves as a davennatrix (shlichat tzibbur), lifespiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, teacher, liturgist, songstress, and public speaker. www.keshirahalev.com

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Elliot Kukla ~ Cheshvan

Elliot Kukla (he/they) is a chronically ill, non-binary, fat, white, rabbi, chaplain, writer, and visual artist in Oakland, CA. Elliot is currently writing a book on the wisdom of dying and disability justice for a planet in transition. He lives with his partner, their child, queer chosen family, and a menagerie of animals. www.jewishhealingcenter.org/about-us/rabbis-staff

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Rae Abileah ~ Kislev

Rae Abileah (she/they) is a Kohenet, social change strategist, author, editor, and activist for collective liberation. She is a trainer at Beautiful Trouble, co-creator of the global Climate Ribbon ritual, and founder of CreateWell consultancy, where she serves as a project midwife supporting visionary leaders to create books, online tools, and curriculums, and to achieve their wildest dreams. raeabileah.com | @raeabileah

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Z B Hurst - Tevet

Z B Hurst (he/they) serves on the Cultural Organizing Team of Linke Fligl, and co-edits the queer, radical, Diasporist land project’s zines. He holds a Masters in Theological Studies and a Certificate in Sexuality and Religion from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. His research emphases are translation and embodiment. www.zbh-poetics.com

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Kohenet Meshacreret Amah (One Who Liberates Her People) aka, YA ~ Shvat

Kohenet Meshacreret Amah (One Who Liberates Her People) aka, YA, (she/her) is from Brooklyn, NY by way of Puerto Rico. She brings 25 + years of experience supporting people at the crossroads of transformation. She creates decolonial frameworks through multidimensional rituals & teachings. Her prophetic practice integrates divination, energy work, mixed media poetry, & herbal medicine. She is a Jewish priestess initiated through the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. She has been certified in strategies for trauma awareness and resilience by the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding. She is also in an ongoing apprenticeship with Wisdom School of S.o.p.h.i.a as a Ba'alat Ov and completing her undergrad in psychology with Goddard College. www.TheHouseofLiberation.com, www.Patreon.com/TheHouseofLiberation

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Jo(anna) Kent Katz ~ Adar I

Jo(anna) Kent Katz (she/her) is an intuitive healer, social justice educator, drama therapist, youth worker, and rite of passage ritualist. She is a political educator who centers ancestral healing and a healing practitioner who believes in collective liberation. Jo’s garlic is currently planted in Northampton, Massachusetts on occupied land originally stewarded by the Nipmuc, Nonotuc and Pocomtuc Peoples. Learn more about her offerings at jokentkatz.com and transcendingjewishtrauma.com.

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Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt ~ Adar II

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt (she/they) is an artist, activist, and diasporic person engaging in place-based art and education projects. Her current work reflects on studies of her grandmother's language, Ilokano and cultural practices of her Jewish and Filipino ancestors. She received her MFA from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2020. www.rrrebecca.com

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Lynn Gottlieb ~ Nisan

Lynn Gottlieb (she/her), one of the first women rabbis in history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community organizer, Jewish educator of the Torah of nonviolence and master storyteller. Lynn is a life long Palestine solidarity activist & pursuer of immigrant, racial, indigenous and gender justice. She is very funny. www.rabbilynngottlieb.com

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Taya Mâ Shere ~ Iyar

Taya Mâ Shere (she/her), co-founder of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, co-author of The Hebrew Priestess, and host of the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast, records Hebrew Goddess chant albums, created the Liberate Your Seder Haggadeck, and offers online courses in Embodied Presence, Jewish Ancestral Healing and Pleasure as Prayer. www.taya.ma | @tayatransforms

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Kohenet Dr. Harriette Wimms ~ Sivan

Kohenet Dr. Harriette Wimms (she/her) is a Proud, Fat, Disabled, Queer, Black, Jew by Choice. She is a Jewish Ley Leader, a community connector, and a member of Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shteibl. She’s also a Licensed Psychologist in Baltimore, Maryland (Piscataway and Susquehanna land) and the proud mother of her 17-year-old son. www.jocmishpacha.org

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Amanda Nube ~ Tamuz

Amanda Nube (she/her) is a ceremonialist, a storyteller, and healthcare worker. She is the author of Healing Mama, a mythical story of connection to Mother Earth. Her writing, workshops, and new moon circles bring earth based customs and spirituality to life. For more info visit www.healingmama.com

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Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD ~ Av

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD (she/her), is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement, and a renowned Jewish scholar and teacher. Her latest work, Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma (Monkfish, 2019) is the recipient of the 2020 Nautilus Book Award Gold in Psychology and the Jewish Women's Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology 2020 book award. www.tirzahfirestone.com | @tirzahfire

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Koach Baruch (KB) Frazier ~ Elul

Koach Baruch (KB) Frazier (he/they) is a transformer, heartbeat of movements, healer, musician and cofounder of the Tzedek Lab, a network of practitioners working at the intersection of dismantling racism, antisemitism and white supremacy. A collaborative leader, rooted in tradition, curiosity and love, Koach strives to dismantle racism, actualize liberation and transform lives both sonically and spiritually. Koach lives with their wife, LaJuana in Philadelphia where he is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. www.thetzedeklab.com