5785 Contributors
Rebecca S’manga Frank ~ Tishrei
Rebecca S'manga Frank is a writer, actor, and culture-worker based in Brooklyn. Her Black, Jewish, Swazi roots inform her intersectional arts and healing work through poetry, performance, playwriting, teaching, ritual leading, music, and as a story doula. Fellowships include LABA NY, New Jewish Culture Fellowship, The Workshop, and Rabbinic Arts.
Is Perlman ~ Cheshvan
Is Perlman (they/them) is an Asian-American, neurodivergent, and trans Jew/dyke living in New York City. They are a student, a theatre-maker, an artist, and a budding Yiddishist. They have been engaged in community-building and advocacy work for queer and trans Jews, especially Jews of color, since they were a teen living in Miami, FL.
Elle Zusi ~ Kislev
Elle Zusi (she/they) is a Jewish DeafDisabled Queer and Non-binary human. By day Elle loves their job of teaching the future generation of Deaf children to grow up proud of their own intersectional identities. By night Elle is a hard core nerd who loves to take care of her reptiles, cuddle their dog and three cats and play board games and minecraft with their partner.
Jessica Valoris ~ Tevet
Jessica Valoris is an interdisciplinary artist and community facilitator who weaves together mixed-media painting, installation, ritual performance and social practice. Jessica collaborates with cultural organizers to facilitate community rituals of remembrance and conversations about reparations, abolition, earth-stewardship, and transformative justice. Her practice is deeply inspired by the earth-based traditions of her Black American and Jewish ancestry. www.jessicavaloris.com
Aurora Levins Morales ~ Shvat
Aurora Levins Morales is wildcrafter of medicinal stories, histories, and movements, telling stories that help heal our past and build our collective future. Her voice has been critical to Puerto Rican and Latinx feminism, disability justice, queer liberation, radical Judaism, climate change activism, and grassroots organizing. She lives on her ancestral lands in Puerto Rico. Support her life and work at www.patreon.com/auroralevinsmorales.
Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky ~ Adar
Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky is a cultural worker, agitator, and organizer; just another gendertreyf diasporist mischling fem who identifies with, not as. Active with Rooted In This World (secular jewish radicalism), Survived & Punished NY (abolition feminism), and various performance and musical projects (rozele.bandcamp.com). Writing, and much more, at meansof.org.
Giselle Castaño ~ Nisan
Giselle Castaño is a queer Latine astrologer farmer living in the Pacific Northwest originally from Mexico City. Giselle’s love for astrology was passed down from their mother and nurtured by queer community. Giselle’s offerings include birth chart readings, workshops, and class series. Giselle also spends their time working on a couple of farms on Puyallup Territory.
noam lerman ~ Iyar
noam lerman facilitates Der Tkhines Proyekt, which gives life to written and spontaneous Yiddish supplications that were/are channeled and prayed by women, trans, and gender-expansive-people. They have been a chaplain for students, elders, incarcerated youth, and recently-incarcerated fathers. They are yearning & fighting for a world without prisons and borders.
Kadijah Spence ~ Sivan
Kadijah Spence studied environmental education and researched Jewish values in Jewish environmental education. Kadijah integrates their cultural and social identities into their work to form welcoming and affirming educational spaces. Currently, they are an NYC Teaching Fellow earning a Biology Certification and navigating the transition from teaching at religious school to teaching in a public school setting. Their passions include gardening, nature walks, writing poetry, coloring, and watching action movies. Get their Shabbat guide.
Yishaq ben Dorit ~ Tamuz
Yishaq ben Dorit is a Black Afrikan Queer Jewish educator who brings dialectical materialism into Jewish religious and cultural spaces for analyzing processes of full liberation. They are a co-founder of the Shomrim Media Collective, a Jew of Color scientific socialist podcast, and an active member of various Jewish antizionists groups.
Rebekah Erev ~ Av
Rebekah Erev is an artist, ritualist, teacher, community herbalist and somatic coach. They are disabled. They work with people one on one and celebrate the beauty of Jewish diaspora with Queer Mikveh Project, teach earth based practices and mysticism; create ritual tools, liturgy and art - re-enchanting them with liberatory frameworks. They are a co-founder of the Dreaming the World to Come project and planner.
Dalya Perez ~ Elul
Dalya Perez is an Filipina, Egyptian-Jew, with Sephardic and Mizrahi lineage. Her research has focused on the impacts of colonization for Filipinxs, education equity, and understanding the experiences of Jews of Color in the United States. She works on new technology while also respecting ancient technologies.