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.

We'll dig into the real barriers: Is the money actually there? What stands in our way? And why is building new Jewish institutions one of the right things to do right now, even when there's urgent need elsewhere?

• Session 3: What's Stopping Us from Building New Jewish Institutions?  | December 22, 7pm ET

Featured Speakers

Session 3: What's Stopping Us from Building New Jewish Institutions? | December 22, 7pm ET

Joanna Ware (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Jewish Liberation Fund. She is an organizer, facilitator, and educator. She has spent over a decade working with organizations – inside and outside of the Jewish world - to bring forth a more just, whole, and liberatory world. Joanna has worked as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant, Adaptive Leadership teacher and practitioner, community organizer, and popular educator at the intersections of identity, power, leadership, and social justice. 

Arielle Angel is the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents and a frequent host of the magazine's podcast, On the Nose.

Rabbi Alissa Wise is a community organizer, educator, organizational consultant, and ritual leader with over two decades of movement-building experience. She is the Founding Director of Rabbis for Ceasefire. She is co-author of Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket, 2024).

Sarah Anne Minkin (Moderator), PhD, works at the intersection of human and civil rights advocacy, philanthropy, and education, with a special focus on Israel/Palestine. She currently serves as the Director of Programs and Partnerships at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. She is an affiliated faculty member at University of California, Berkeley's Center for Right-Wing Studies and was a lecturer at San Francisco University and UC Berkeley. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley for research focusing on the sociology of emotion, nationalism, and Jewish Americans' relationships with Israel/Palestine. She is a trained community mediator, a chaplain-in-training, and a Board member at Jewish Currents.