Taste of Olam Haba

06/04/2026

Join Keshet and Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action for a special Pride-themed phonebanking event! In partnership with the Environmental Voter Project, we're mobilizing voters to have a positive impact on climate policy in their state.

No previous phonebanking experience is required! All you need is a phone, a computer, and yourself! Monday, June 8, 6pm ET. d.aye.nu/junechutzpah

05/21/2026

Shavuot is coming this Thursday evening, May 21!

In preparation, we asked our Rabbi Ambassadors: “What Torah amazes you?” 📖💭

Their answers have been woven into beautiful essays and reflection questions—ready for you to learn with on Shavuot.
Download Bitmiha! Torah that Amazes Us! 📚

Download here: https://linktr.ee/joctorahacademy

05/19/2026

We are horrified to learn of the deadly shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. We mourn those murdered and send our love to their families. May their memories be for a blessing.

As a multiracial movement of U.S. Jews, we stand in solidarity with Muslim communities against surging Islamophobic hate, racism, gun violence, scapegoating, white Christian nationalism, and fascist attacks on immigrant communities. A better world is possible. We won’t stop fighting for a thriving future where all people are safe and free.

05/13/2026

Thanks to Peter Beinart who joined us in Little Rock!

“Hope comes from wherever it comes from. It’s just something that human beings need. Like we need oxygen. For me, maybe it comes from belief in God. I don’t know. I have glimpsed, myself, little episodes of this potential liberation as a child of South Africans. Imagine if this story of Palestine and Israel, which is now a story of unbelievable horror, of genocide, of apartheid – if it were instead a story of collective liberation. I do really believe in my soul that Israeli Jews and Palestinians could live together in full equality with a true process of reconciliation and full refugee return and historical justice that would unleash things that would be miraculous for people around the world.”

05/11/2026

Hope to see you tonight! Peter Beinart is an important voice of the observant Jewish left and his book, 'Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning' is a must-read.

Following the talk, there will be a book signing with a limited number of free copies of the book available to attendees on a first-come, first-served basis.

Monday, May 11th @ 6:00pm
New Millennium Church
21 Lakeshore Drive, Little Rock, AR 72204

05/06/2026

Our Spiritual Leader, Stephanie, facilitated a session at the Tzedek Lab Network Gathering on "Living Abolition: Between Theory and Praxis" with Shir Lovett-Graff, the co-founder of Matir Asurim: Jewish Care Network for Incarcerated People

"Conceptualizing abolition as a presence, not an absence, is key to understanding the work prison abolitionists do. Burning down the prison is meaningless if the people know nothing other than how to rebuild it."

Learn more about Matir Asurim:

We are a collection of chaplains, rabbis, cantors, Kohanot/Hebrew Priestesses, advocates, activists, volunteers, loved ones of incarcerated people, and people with direct experience of incarceration. We are an all volunteer group who began meeting in 2021. We live and work across Turtle Island, in t...

05/04/2026

This week, we will be sharing a piece of wisdom learned each day from the Tzedek Lab Network Gathering. Tzedek Lab is the hearth for the Jewish Left, supporting and connecting practitioners to mobilize our communities and dismantle antisemitism, racismm, and white supremacy.

Today is from movement leader, April Rosenblum, on belonging:

"So here we are, at a time when many people's survival depends on our movements growing quickly. It's tempting to feel like we don't have time to be "nice;" like being nice is just superficial liberalism. But connecting with people is the foundation of organizing, and avoiding it doesn't save us time; it delays our progress. As we enter into this period of growth, we're in a moment where I think many activists' discipline - to stay consistent with our values, to avoiding deviating from them by accident - comes not just from care for these values but from fear of making a mistake and losing our belonging...It is ironic that at the moment when we finally have the technology to reach vast numbers of people, we are losing our grasp of some of our most powerful tools to absorb those people. Movement welcome and belonging is at the heart of movement growth."

I want to paint a picture for you of what it was like to join social justice movements before internet culture.

05/01/2026

Happy May Day from your friendly neighborhood Jewish socialists 🌹✊

Here’s some reads we recommend for learning about the long history of Jews and the labor movement.

We will be two events this weekend:

Friday: Film screening of “The Salt of the Earth” at Riverdale 10 at 6:00pm with Central Arkansas DSA, Intransitive, Indivisible, and Cinema I/O

Saturday: Action at the State Capitol at 10:00am with Arkansas Education Association, NAACP, Arkansas Public Policy Panel, Citizens First Congress, AFL-CIO, and more!