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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.com
Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/
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Read 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/
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