40 Days of Teshuvah Film Screening & Discussion

sponsored by Tikkun Olam@GJC, and facilitated by Rabbi Tamara Cohen and Gary King

Alongside filmmaker Hannah Roodman and IOWA Ovdim cohort member and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice organizer Yehudah Webster, The IOWA Project has 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. There are ancestral contemplative tools that can support the work of liberation, allowing those who do this work to tap into more resilience in the fight against the oppressive systems that devalue black and brown life. Social justice work can flourish when individuals are able to show up as their most grounded, full selves, especially in these incredibly hard moments.

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