The Doykeit Fellowship
September 2026 - April 2027
Dates
In-person gatherings:
3rd - 6th September 2026*
11th-13th December 2026
26th-29th March 2027
*Note date change for the first retreat.
Monthly Zoom workshops: 7 - 9pm (dates below)
A 9-month Journey into Jewish belonging, connection to land & collective liberation
Dates of online calls (7 - 9pm):
Some of these calls will be educational sessions with external speakers, others might be used for personal research time and practice. We will also decide together how we want to spend our time. Recordings will be available if you are unable to join live.
Wednesday 30th September 2026
Wednesday 28th October 2026
Wednesday 25th November 2026
Tuesday 22nd December 2026
Wednesday 27th January 2027
Wednesday 24th February 2027
Wednesday 17th March 2027
Wednesday 14th April 2027
“What do I mean by home? Not the nation state; not religious worship; not the deepest grief of a people marked by hatred. I mean a commitment to what is and is not mine; to the strangeness of others, to my strangeness to others; to common threads twisted with surprise. Diasporism takes root in the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund’s principle of doikayt—hereness—the right to be, and to fight for justice, wherever we are…”
The Doykeit Fellowship is a 9 month incubation, including 3 immersive in-person gatherings and monthly Zoom calls, inviting a small cohort to join us in a peer to peer cohort incubation 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. Facilitators TBC in coming months!
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.
Application coming soon.
