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40 Days of Teshuva Short Film
Host a Screening in Your Community
Alongside filmmaker Hannah Roodman and IOWA Ovdim cohort member and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice organizer Yehudah Webster, we've been creating a short film about last summer's 40 Days of Teshuva protest. This action is a powerful example of what organizing for racial justice can look like when deeply rooted in spirituality. We have ancestral contemplative tools that can support our liberation work, allowing us to tap into more resilience in the fight against the oppressive systems that devalue black and brown life. Our social justice work can flourish when we're able to show up as our most grounded, full selves, especially in these incredibly hard moments. The film offers a powerful model for integrating Jewish spiritual tools and technologies like prayer, teshuva and Mussar into the work of social change in general and racial justice in particular. Check back in the coming days for more information around hosting a screening for Elul and the High Holy days!
Watch the Trailer
Thank you to our film sponsors:
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Interested in becoming a sponsor and hosting a screening in your community?
Reach out to Dan at dan@insideoutwisdomandaction.org, or fill out the interest form below.
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Donate to The IOWA Project
Our work is made possible by donations from our supporters. We have a lot of exciting work coming up in the coming months, and we need to resources to make that happen! Donate to our work today, to support short film screenings, our racial justice programming in the fall, and more. All funds raised will go towards diversifying our staff and consultants, and building capacity for our future racial justice programming at IOWA.
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We're the Inside Out Wisdom and Action (IOWA) Project, and we are a network of activists, educators, and spiritual leaders in the Jewish community supporting social justice leaders in exploring Jewish spiritual wisdom and developing Jewish spiritual practices. We believe that integrating deep spiritual wisdom into our justice work allows us to lead from a place that is more visionary, creative, sustainable, and grounded. In our community, we're helping people build bridges between their spiritual lives and their activist lives through study groups, leadership cohorts, facilitators cohorts to learn, practice, and grow into deeper Jewish spiritual practice through Mussar and Chassidut.
We hope you'll join us for film screenings and Tisha B'Av programming!
BBC Interview: Black Jewish Lives Matter
Learn more about the important and powerful work from Black Jewish social justice and spiritual leaders in our community in this BBC interview, below! In the interview, Yehudah shares that “Connecting to Torah isn’t just something that’s nice - it’s necessary.” We couldn’t agree more, and are excited to talk more about bringing spiritual wisdom to our justice work through this short film and Tisha B'Av programming.