In what feels like a moment of crisis for our world, we're launching this year's political education series: Jews, Money, and 2025.

This year's theme is "surviving and building after the crash." Across three sessions this December, we'll take you on a journey to understand the forces at play in this moment of crisis, grieve what we've lost, move towards hope for a better future, and hear from leaders who are building the institutions our movement needs.

• Session 1: Understanding Brokenness | December 1, 7pm ET

Featured Speakers

Session 1: Understanding Brokenness | December 1, 7pm ET

Dania Rajendra is an organizer and writer, examining the lessons from the US labor movement for Jews organizing desperately-needed new religious and cultural institutions. Her recent essays have appeared in Spectre Journal, Truthout, Dilettante Army, and In These Times, and her poetry in Killing the Buddha.

Lila Corwin Berman is the Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, where she directs the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her most recent book, The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution, was awarded the 2021 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. In addition to her scholarly articles, Berman has also written guest columns for the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, MSNBC, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Her new book, Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship (Princeton University Press), will be published next spring.

Dove Kent (Moderator) has over two decades of experience in grassroots organizing, political education, and movement building. She currently serves as the Acting Director of Diaspora Alliance, an international project that fights antisemitism and its political misuse.