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Beyond The Pale: Radio's Home For The Jewish LeftJewish Nigeria with Rabbi Dr Koach Baruch Frazier, Shoshana Vogel & Shoshana BrownLast week, Black Jewish Liberation Collective (BJLC) and the Jewish Multiracial Network led a 25 member cohort to Hebrew Igbo community in Ogidi, Nigeria. Today we speak with organizers and participants Shoshana Brown, Rabbi Dr Koach Baruch and Shoshana Vogel on their reflections from the trip and what's ahead.
Black Jewish Liberation Collective (BJLC)
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Rabbi Dr Koach Baruch Frazier
IG @drkbfrazier
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Shoshana Vogel
IG @shoshanavox
2025-01-3157 min
Jewish Ancestral Healing PodcastThe Rhythms of Sacred Justice with Koach Baruch Fraizer and Shoshana Akua BrownKoach Baruch Frazier – rabbinic student and co-founder of the Tzedek Lab – shares stories of living at the intersection of Black, trans, queer and Jewish identities. In this conversation with organizer and educator Shoshana Akua, KB explores the griefs and joys of connecting to ancestry, offers insight into resilience through the practice of lament and speaks to the power of drumming as a spiritual tool and political act. 2022-06-2257 min
Jewish Ancestral HealingThe Rhythms of Sacred Justice with Koach Baruch Fraizer and Shoshana Akua BrownKoach Baruch Frazier – rabbinic student and co-founder of the Tzedek Lab – shares stories of living at the intersection of Black, trans, queer and Jewish identities. In this conversation with organizer and educator Shoshana Akua, KB explores the griefs and joys of connecting to ancestry, offers insight into resilience through the practice of lament and speaks to the power of drumming as a spiritual tool and political act. 2022-06-2257 min
Judaism UnboundEpisode 275: Rhythms of Sacred Protest - Koach Baruch FrazierKoach Baruch Frazier -- a musician, activist, audiologist, and rabbinical student -- joins Dan and Lex for a conversation that upends the dichotomy of prayer, on the one hand, and action, on the other. Frazier looks back at their own journey toward the rabbinate, and in doing so considers what drumbeats, the inner ear, and silence have to teach us. As it turns out, listening to what these vessels of sound have to say can help unlock many important concepts in contemporary Judaism, and in contemporary strivings for justice.This episode is the third episode in a...2021-05-2150 min
Drinking and Drashing: Torah with a TwistEp. 09 - Vayechi with Sierra Jay Debrow and Koach Baruch FrazierWe are so excited to share with you our ninth episode, a deeper look at #TransTorah, and looking at what it means to break out of boxes while breaking down binaries. Join RRC rabbinical student Koach Baruch Frazier and Wash-U MSW student Sierra Jay Debrow—because they’re brilliant, beautiful, and flabbergastingly funny. We also welcome third-year HUC-JIR cantorial student Kalix Jacobson to the show. Hebrew translations below!
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SIERRA:
Email: debrowsj@gmail.com
Facebook: @sdebrow17
Instagram: @jaymanji
Book mentioned: A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
2020-12-281h 21
The Prophetic Resistance PodcastEpisode 37: Faith Forum Panel - Faith Organizing In An Election YearCatalina Morales Bahena, Nicole Barnes and Koach Baruch Frazier are theologians in training and innovative community organizers of color, who are deeply rooted in the communities they serve. At the 2020 Faith Forum in February, they shared the stage with Megan Black clergy organizer for Faith in Action. With the upcoming election in view, Catalina, Nicole and Koach offer wisdom drawn from their respective Catholic, Baptist and Jewish traditions, as well as their lived experiences as faith organizers. In this engaging panel discussion, they teach us to trust our instincts, to value human connections and to remember that f...2020-05-0739 min
Kosher Queers25 — Pesach: Let Our People GayIt's Pesach! Okay, yes, technically this episode comes out on the middle days of Pesach, during Chol HaMoed, not on the day itself, but we were just filled with so much Pesach energy that we have an extra-long special episode for you, all about the holiday. Instead of going through a parsha, we go through a haggadah, and then hear about cool different ways folks celebrate the holiday. Full transcript available here. The Keshet haggadah by Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi can be found here. At 36:50, Jaz cites this JFREJ haggadah, and a piece written by the...2020-04-131h 23
HashivenuS2 Ep. 5: Raising Our VoicesDr. Koach Frazier is an audiologist, an activist, a rabbinical student and a powerful musician. We speak about singing and drumming, and explore how music can support us, uplift us, and lead us to transformation personally and collectively.
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This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at ReconstructingJudaism.org.Special Guest: Koach Baruch Frazier.Support HashivenuLinks:Ritualwell resources: 10 Songs to Lift Up the Soul — Learn about the connection between music and activism from Dr. Koach Frazier in conversation with Rabbi Deborah Waxman at th...2019-08-0229 min
Who Raised You? PodcastSeason 1 / Ep. 1 The Sound of DissentSeason 1 / Ep. 1 The Sound of Dissent
ft. Koach Baruch Frazier
Koach Baruch Frazier is impossible to miss in St. Louis. His drumming has been called the "heartbeat of the movement" and he shares his spiritual leadership in his synagogue and on the streets. He is part of Justice Beats, which drums for protests and did 49 days of drumming in honor of those killed in the Pulse massacre. Join us for a kitchen table chat about remembering to breathe, the music of black church and Judaism, and revolutionary listening.
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2018-01-021h 02