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 2: From Grief; Towards Possibility  | December 8, 3pm ET

Featured Speakers

Session 2: From Grief; Towards Possibility | December 8, 3pm ET

emet ezell (b. 1995, Texas) is an artist living and working in Berlin. Trained in the studio of Polish typographer Robert Sawa, ezell engages the letter as a visceral unit of composition. In addition to prints, they make paper by hand, preserving forgotten techniques through practice. Their work spans themes of devotion, dispossession, ruin, and return. ezell has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, European Commission for Culture and Creativity, and the Berlin Senate, among others. Recent work appears in The American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best New Poets. Their first solo exhibition, "Destruction Is and Is Not Forever," debuted at the Sabile Arts and Culture Center in Latvia. They are a 2025-26 New Jewish Culture Fellow.

Rabbi Sandra Lawson is the Executive Director of Carolina Jews for Justice, a statewide grassroots organization mobilizing Jewish communities across North Carolina to build a more just and compassionate world. She lives in North Carolina with her wife Susan and three dogs Bridget, Simon and Stella.

Keren Soffer-Roth (she/her) is the director of Rise Up Initiative. She brings over a decade of leadership experience in the Jewish social justice sector and nearly two decades in the government and nonprofit sectors. Before joining Rise Up, Keren was a senior organizer at Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, where she founded the first ever Mizrahi/Sephardi Caucus in the country; built the largest education and organizing program in JFREJ's then-30 year history; and co-authored the groundbreaking resource, Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering To Our Movement.

Rebecca Katz (she/her) is an artist and educator from Brooklyn, NY. She’s spent the past decade working in the Jewish social justice movement to engage local and national communities in volunteering, organizing, and advocacy. Rebecca operates from a foundational belief that everyone is creative. She’s trained as a creative facilitator with the Jewish Studio Project and works with the the Jewish community to create spaces where people can access their creativity and explore their connection to community, identity, and place. With artist Rachel Schragis, Rebecca cofacilitated JFREJ’s Unraveling Antisemitism. This poster and discussion guide earned acclaim as a cultural organizing project and map of the struggle to win a world free from antisemitism. Currently, Rebecca works on staff at Lilith magazine, organizing Jewish feminist events and partnerships.