Jessica Rosenberg

Transforming Our Stories, Transforming Ourselves: Collective Healing through Ritual and Narrative

(Recorded)

The stories we tell about our histories and where we came from have the power to deeply influence how we understand our communities, ourselves, and the world. Jewish ritual gives us the space to tell our people’s stories in ways that constrict us and bind us in fear, or in ways that expand possibilities and transform us. In this session we will reflect on and gain tools for building anti-Zionist, embodied, justice-seeking Jewish communities through transforming our relationship to history and story.

Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg became a rabbi in order to learn our people’s diverse and nuanced histories, tell stories, and create spaces, ritual, and organizing that helps transform our relationships to past, present and future.  She is a collective member of the Radical Jewish Calendar project, and organizes with Matir Asurim: Jewish Care Network for Incarcerated People and as part of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. She is a writer and teacher on integrating trauma-informed pedagogy into Jewish education, ritual and organizing, and authored an Introduction to Trauma, Healing and Resilience for Rabbis, Jewish Educators and Organizers, published by Reconstructing Judaism.