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
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
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
Session 4—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire co-hort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
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.
Register here
Session 3—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire co-hort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
GLIDE Volunteer Opportunity: Pack Lunches
The GLIDE Daily Free Meals Program needs help behind the scenes—volunteers will work with Meals Staff to make sandwiches and prepare bagged lunches, chop vegetables, sort food donations, prep items for our weekly Zero Waste Pantry, and more. This shift will take place entirely indoors.
We encourage you to sign up for multiple dates (see calendar for available shifts)!
Sign up here
Questions? Email Avital
Session 2—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire co-hort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
Session 1—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire cohort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
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
Confronting the Climate Crisis with Dayenu
Join the Rainmakers, Freedom City, and Team Hesed in partnership with Dayenu for a unique, intergenerational training focused on the emotional complexity of the climate crisis. Learn how to resource your emotions to take action in a meaningful way.
The workshop will create space to process hard feelings and find hope and empowerment in our Jewish wisdom & community to address the existential threat of the climate crisis—and a path to move forward!
Come ready to share openly about your own experience witnessing the reality of a changing climate, and willing to process as a Jewish community.
All ages encouraged to attend! Capacity limited, register early.
Register here Zoom link to be provided by Dayenu upon registration.
Questions? Email Avital
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.
Organizing for Change with GLIDE: Part 2
Get trained in core organizing skills and GLIDE’s method of social change with Wesley Saver, the GLIDE Center for Social Justice Policy Manager. Everyone is welcome.
The first training on 11/14 focused on the content of GLIDE’s policy priorities, collective visioning and coalition building. The second training on 12/12 focuses on skills building for organizing efforts with a training on making public comments. Both sessions are at 6 PM.
Register here
Questions? Email Avital our Community Organizer
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.
Organizing for Change with GLIDE: Training Part 1
Get trained in core organizing skills and GLIDE’s method of social change with Wesley Saver, the GLIDE Center for Social Justice Policy Manager. Everyone is welcome.
The first training on 11/14 focused on the content of GLIDE’s policy priorities, collective visioning and coalition building. The second training on 12/12 focuses on skills building for organizing efforts with a training on making public comments. Both sessions are at 6 PM.
Register here
Questions? Email Avital our Community Organizer
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.
GLIDE Volunteer Orientation
Join Meilani Meleisea, GLIDE’s Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator, as we kick off the new Jewish year with a renewed commitment to service in the GLIDE community. We’ll spotlight the latest ways to get involved, the history of the Tenderloin and the safety protocols for volunteering.
Please register here to receive an invite to the virtual meeting hosted by GLIDE.
Questions? Email our Community Organizer Avital Raff - avital@thekitchensf.org
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.
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.
Rainmakers Present: Electric Vehicles 101
Join Rainmakers and other Bay Area faith communities to explore how one action—driving/biking electric—can reduce your climate pollution by half and clean the air.
We’ll review current and coming Electric Vehicles (EVs) & e-bikes and you’ll discover that there’s one for every lifestyle and budget.
You’ll learn EV basics like charging at home and on the road and how to charge an EV with clean, affordable energy.
We’ll explain how EVs can actually help when there’s a power outage.
You’ll have a chance to win one of 3 Clipper cards for use on Bay Area public transit ($25, $50, $100)
Zoom link here
One City Kickoff Meeting
One City | Sharing Our Abundance
'אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֗ן יִקָּ֤רֵא לָךְ֙ עִ֣יר הַצֶּ֔דֶק
’After that, you shall be called a City of Righteousness...'
-Isaiah1:26
The Kitchen’s One City initiative connects human beings who live with abundance to human beings who live with scarcity. In doing so, One City aims to bring dignity, comfort and love to GLIDE clients.
Have an extra bed, couch, refrigerator, or more in your home? Someone in the Tenderloin could use it. Want to help deliver or transport items to GLIDE clients? We want you to do that too.
Join Rabbi Michael Lezak & Kitchen Community Organizer Avital Raff on an introduction to One City—our evolving vision of how to bring an expansive sense of comfort, compassion and love to our neighbors; building out systems; summoning volunteers (handy-people, drivers, schleppers and more).
Zoom registration here.
Questions? Email Avital
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.
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.
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.
Rainmakers Meeting
A new Kitchen team working towards a larger environmental solution. Sign up to be involved.
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.
Rainmakers Meeting
A new Kitchen team working towards a larger environmental solution. Sign up to be involved.
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.
Kitchen Queers Meeting
Join the Kitchen Queers community to re-convene, prepare for Shavuot and Pride Shabbat on 6/11. We will also discuss upcoming resources on action and advocacy that we want to bring to The Kitchen community.
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.