The Latest from From our Staff

Greetings from JOIN’s New Interim Fellowship Director

  I moved to Boston in 2009 from Milwaukee, WI in search of deeper Jewish community committed to liberation and celebrating Shabbat at the same time.  I was searching for a place to be a bigger, fuller version of myself. … Read More

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Greetings from JOIN’s New Development Manager

JOIN recently hired it’s first full-time development professional. When asked if she’d like to offer a few words of greeting to the JOIN community, our new Development Manager, Ilene Weismehl, had this to say. “I have worked in the non-profit … Read More

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A Good-bye from Ellie Axe, Interim Fellowship Director

At the beginning of February, Ellie Axe (Organizing Fellowship c/o 2003) began a transition out her role as JOIN’s interim Fellowship Director and into a new career at a new organization as Director of Operations at Common Impact. We asked … Read More

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JOIN Alum Builds Jewish Power for Pursuing Justice in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia metropolitan area may present some exciting new horizons in the world of Jewish organizing. It occupies a strategically important position in a politically important “swing state”, is home to a large and established Jewish community, and may harbor … Read More

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Training with COEJL

COEJL, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, has enlisted JOIN to train Jewish green activists from around the country in community organizing to help them organize their communities and organizations on behalf of COEJL’s Jewish Energy Network.  The … Read More

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