With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar, FOR SUCH TIMES AS THESE offers spiritual practices and holiday rituals rooted in movements for racial justice, decolonization, feminism, and queer and trans liberation. Each chapter opens with an invocation by liturgist and healer Dori Midnight and illuminated by artist Sol Weiss. Highlighting each month's spiritual and cultural qualities, Rabbi Ariana Katz and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg summarize and provide commentary on Torah readings; examine the texts, histories, and contemporary customs of Jewish holidays; and offer questions to reflect on and engage spiritually with the month. This work provides a guide for creative action and ritual making throughout the seasons, an exploration of anti-Zionist Judaism, and spiritual-cultural invitation to embody and expand decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish practice.
Ariana Katz is the founding rabbi of Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl, a warm and joyful congregation in Baltimore, MD. Rabbi Ariana graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in the spring of 2018. She is a queer white Ashkenazi femme 4th generation Philadelphian who sees rooted ritual and radical organizing as her Jewish legacy. Rabbi Ariana was the creator and host of Kaddish, a podcast about death and identity, and co-host of the forthcoming podcast God Crush with Pastor Lura Groen. She is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, and helps create the Radical Jewish Calendar. She is passionate about abortion clinic escorting, diaspora-made Judaica, radical Jewish calendars, care webs, and queer aesthetics.
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg currently resides on Dakota land, also home to the Anishinaabe, known as South Minneapolis. She became a rabbi in order to learn 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.
Mark Gunnery (he/him) is a musician, activist, artist, writer, fourth-generation Baltimorean, and former public radio journalist. He has been involved in radical Jewish cultural production and politics for over two decades. Mark is currently working on a translation and songwriting project reimagining the liturgy of Sabbatians, members of a movement that blended elements of Jewish mysticism, Sufism, and Christianity. You can follow his work on IG @raisingthesparks.
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