Dori Midnight

The State is not an Amulet: a conversation about Jewish Protection Magic and Mysticism as a Liberatory Practice  

(Recorded)

Join Dori Midnight and Hadar Cohen for an inspiring conversation about how rooting into Jewish healing traditions and ancestral wisdom can support us in divesting from nationalism, militarism and Zionism. Dori believes that re-enchanting some of our Jewish protection and healing rituals can offer us radical possibilities/counterspells to help us resist/undo empire and redefine what “safety” and “protection” mean. Hadar teaches about divesting from militarization through investing in mysticism and how rooting in our relationship with the Divine is vital in our justice pursuits. What would it look like to point these ancestral legacies towards liberation and find the gems in our lineage that are embodied, relational, reciprocal, non-extractive, life affirming, and foster kinship across time and space?

Dori Midnight is a community healing practitioner, ritual artist, writer, and deep listener oriented towards healing and liberation. For over two decades, Dori has practiced intuitive healing, rooted in and guided by Jewish ancestral traditions, feminist, decolonial and abolitionist scholarship, queer liberation, and disability and healing justice work. Dori teaches workshops on ritual and remedies for unraveling times, remembering and reconnecting with traditions of Jewish ancestral wisdom as liberatory practice, and queer magic and healing. 

Dori lives on the ancestral lands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc, by the Quinnehtukqut River/aka Northampton, Massachusetts.