The Doikayt* Fellowship is a 9 month incubation, including 3 immersive in-person gatherings and monthly Zoom calls, inviting a small cohort to join us on a peer to peer journey focused on jewish identity, diaspora land, liberation and belonging in the UK.

Participants will be able to focus in on elements they are most drawn to and our curriculum will be shaped by participants but we will broadly be exploring:

• Jewish belonging and connection to land on these isles & beyond

• Revolutionary histories across these isles and the jewish diaspora

• Histories of zionism, diasporism and Palestinian struggles for freedom and justice.

• Our ancestral connections with land, excavating & repairing personal ancestral stories

• Movement building - to build stronger and more powerful progressive jewish movements to meet the struggles of our times, including the rise of the far-right

• Learning about and healing from anti-semitism within a wider racial justice frame-work 

• A prophetic judaism for these times which includes deepening theologies of diaspora.

• Building greater accountability & solidarity while deepening our connection with land.

All of this exploration will be held in deep connection to land, song, creative practice & healing somatics and will be held through a lens of justice and solidarity. Note, this will be different from previous retreats & offerings in that our journey together will include some co-woven elements and facilitation from the cohort, designing our curriculum collectively based off the interests and desires of the group. 

We will be joined by movement leaders, teachers & guides from across the rich, radical jewish diaspora and beyond. Current speakers and educators include: Aurora Levins Morales, Daniel Voskoboynik, Joseph Finlay, Rachel Solnick, Annie Cohen, Lucy Michaels, Yona Dvir Shalem & Rachel Shabi. 

The journey will be facilitated by Sara Moon, Samson Hart & Ella Asheri.

More facilitators and educators to be announced in the coming months!

*Whilst Doikayt is a Yiddish word which draws on the particular experience of Eastern European radicalism, this fellowship will give space to jewish people of all heritages to explore their own identities, radical histories and languages and each others. We are so excited to situate our learning from thinkers and activists from across the rich Jewish diaspora and imagine what versions of ‘doikayt’ we may find across these worlds.

With that being said, we acknowledge the ease in which Ashkenazi Jewish experience can dominate Jewish spaces and acknowledge the facilitators (Sara, Samson & Ella) are of Ashkenazi heritage. We hope visibilising this and tending to this pattern from the outset might support us all to re-balance the 'ashkenormativity' prevalent in (progressive) Jewish spaces. 

Due to the focus on relationship and movement building in a UK context, this fellowship is for those based in the UK. There may still be relevance for those based in Europe but please check in with us before you apply to check suitability.

This Fellowship is generously supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust. This fellowship is part of a wider programme of anti-racist training and solidarity-building with other marginalised groups across the land justice movement and beyond, that we will be offering over the coming year. 

Costs are on a sliding scale, from £350-£1000 to include all programming, food, accommodation and monthly calls.  Payment plans and bursary places are available.