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On-line Organizing Class in Full Swing

Community organizing is a discipline that has always been rooted in the power of relationships. Now, thanks to the internet, that power of relationships and networks has the potential to go global and JOIN is finding a way to harness … Read More

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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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SLP Alumnus Hard at Work in New Jersey Shul

Rabbi Greg Litcofsky, alumnus of JOIN’s Seminary Leadership Project (where rabbinical and cantorial students learn organizing skills through classes, workshops and internships) and current JOIN for Justice board member, recently left Massachusetts to take up a new role at a … 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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