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Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group
Jun
13

Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group

Sessions focus: This is our last session of the season and we will have a TBA collective action within embodied anti-racism.

Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.

This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!

Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.

Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff

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Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group
May
2

Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group

Sessions focus: Chapter 18 Body-Centered Activism (pages 237-244), Chapter 19 Creating Culture (pages 245-252), & Chapter 21 Whiteness without Supremacy (pages 253-261) of Part 3: Mending Our Collective Body (pages 237-293)

Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.

This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.

Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!

Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.

Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff

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Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group
Apr
11

Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group

Sessions focus: Chapter 11 Your Soul Nerve (pages 137-150) & Chapter 12 Settling and Safeguarding Your Body (pages 151-165)of Part 2: Remembering Ourselves (pages 137-215)

Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.

This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.

Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!

Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.

Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff

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Kitchen Kavod Presents: Afterward film screening + Q&A with filmmaker Ofra Bloch
Apr
3

Kitchen Kavod Presents: Afterward film screening + Q&A with filmmaker Ofra Bloch

Note that this meeting will be in-person at a TBA location for the film screening of Afterward followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Ofra Bloch.

Kitchen Kavod invites you to the screening of Afterward, a documentary by Jerusalem-born psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch. In this timely film, Ofra journeys through Germany and Israel/Palestine, and faces those she was raised to fear and hate as she searches to understand the identity-making narratives of the Holocaust and the Nakba and the possibility of reconciliation.

Through watching the film together and a Q&A with Ofra Bloch and psychoanalyst Denni Liebowitz, we will contemplate inherited collective trauma through self-study and self-awareness, considering how we can move toward healing and the possibilities of peace and increased safety in ourselves and our communities.

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Mar
13

Kitchen 24/7 Purim Clothing Swap

Join the Kitchen-ite 24/7 community (ages 21-39ish) at Moishe House Lake Merritt for a pre Purim clothing swap! Maybe you’ll even find your Purim costume there (note, our theme this year is disco).

Bring gently used clothes in wearable condition to swap. All clothes that aren’t swapped will be taken to community members in need.

Location to be provided upon RSVP.

RSVP here

Questions? Email Avital

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Mar
7

Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group

Sessions focus: Chapter 1 Your Body and Blood (pages 3-27) of Part 1: Unarmed and Dismembered (pages 3-129)

Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.

This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.

Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!

Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.

Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff

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Anti-Racism Discussion Group Meeting
Jan
24

Anti-Racism Discussion Group Meeting

This group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones. We will be looking at institutional racism through inviting new facilitators, and exploring shared topics of interest.

Our guest speaker is Denni Liebowitz, LCSW, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley, who will help us frame and feel into these questions. Denni has studied and written about questions about Israel-Palestine for decades. In The Kitchen’s Antiracism Discussion Group, we approach questions about trauma, legacies of oppression, and the quest for racial equity with a leaning toward embodiment and self-reflection.

All are welcome. No previous attendance or training required.

Zoom registration here.

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Anti-Racism Discussion Group Meeting with Repair The World
May
24

Anti-Racism Discussion Group Meeting with Repair The World

Special Session with Repair The World

This group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones. We will be looking at institutional racism through inviting new facilitators, and exploring shared topics of interest.

Anti-Racism Zoom link here

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Apr
20

Rainmakers Present: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint At Home Kitchen-ite Mitch Pinsker

Rainmakers Workshop 3: Reducing your Carbon Footprint from your Home with Mitch Pinsker

In this interactive workshop with Mitch Pinsker we'll bring it home, literally, and learn about home appliances, renewable energy and how to take action now to reduce your living carbon footprint.

Topics will include whole house electrification, when to use & not use electricity *and get paid for it*, vampire loads (night time laundry), and more.

Registration & Zoom link here.

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Anti-Racism Discussion Group Meeting
Apr
19

Anti-Racism Discussion Group Meeting

This group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones. We will be looking at institutional racism through inviting new facilitators, and exploring shared topics of interest.

Learn more here. Questions? Email Avital.

Zoom Link

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Feb
23

Rainmakers Workshop with Saul Griffith

Workshop 1 : Motivation

The group will consider the challenge ahead of us in climate change and climate justice. Join to hear from scientist and inventor Saul Griffith, participate in a teaching from Yaron Milgrom framing climate change in a Jewish context, and jointly sharing our motivations for joining this effort.

Our twelve-part series begins February 23rd. To sign up, fill out the Kitchen Declaration on Climate Change and select 'action.' We welcome you to one or more discussions - the more you come, the more you get. All workshops are capped at 30 participants to foster discussions, access, and lateral connections.

Sign up here

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New Bridges to Social Justice
Dec
10

New Bridges to Social Justice

New Bridges is an approach to undoing social oppression and building intercultural alliances. New Bridges holds firm to the idea that none of us is to blame for our conditioning, and that we all need a loving context within which to free ourselves. Through a series of small and large group introspective activities, we will look deeply at race and racism in America as we share key strategies for undoing the internal and external structures of racism. Space is limited

Sunday, October 25, 4-7PM
Thursdays: October 28, November 5, 12, 19, December 3, 10, 7:30-9PM

Free for Kitchen members | $72 for non-members | Scholarship available

Register here

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