Circles!
JDM’s circles bring people together to integrate our work and make us less isolated.
Through JDM circles we embody being part of a movement, skill up, grow our thinking, de-silo our organizing, and mentor each other.
These autonomous, self-organized circles are the heart of JDM’s work.
Circle members are eligigible to participate in JDM-wide referenda.
(See the Circles section of our Structure document for more details!)
Current Circles!
Our initial cohort of trial circles are:
-
Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sefardi, Mizrahi
-
At the intersection of education, ritual, parenting, and community building.
We’ll share and shape what B’Mitzvah looks like in our various community contexts.
-
For disabled community, resource sharing, discussing how to meet access needs in organizing, and looking at Jewish text through a disabled lens.
-
Coordinating the various educational offerings our member organizations are already supplying and working to build out JDM-specific educational opportunities that will help to highlight the variety and strengths of our members.
-
For people who are organizing, leading, or in the process of starting a synagogue, havurah, or minyan to connect, learn together, and share resources.
-
For people who are exploring, or wish to explore, building relationships & solidarity with Indigenous communities in their region.
The circle is open to folks of any identity who are interested in sharing ideas, experiences and experiments that support Indigenous decolonization efforts.
-
Learning Jewish texts, developing resources, and connecting our disparate batei midrash.
-
A regional space for folks across the Midwest to gather, connect, and share resources and events.
-
For people who grew up poor or working class, and navigated classism in Jewish spaces then and now.
You are welcome if your class identity was confusing or mixed!
-
All things ritual, from creation to leadership strategies and everything in between! All levels welcome!
-
For people based in the Southeastern U.S. to find community and co-create regional resources and programming.
If you’re involved with one of our member organizations, email info@jewishdiasporamovement.org and ask for our participation survey!
Once we get your response to the survey about which circle(s) you are interested in joining (or starting!) you’ll be added to a Signal group for that circle.