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Dissatisfaction Can Change the World: A Prozdor Learn-In on Workers’ Rights

By Emilia Diamant (Current Organizing Fellow) Originally posted on January 24th, 2013 at Jewishboston.com “Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be dissatisfied until that … Read More

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Congrats to BCIL and ECCO!

Congratulations to Allegra Stout (current organizing fellow at the Boston Center for Independent Living) and to Dan Lesser (Fellowship Alumnus 2009 and Executive Director of ECCO, Essex County Community Organization) for their contributions to organizations recognized as being on the … 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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Fellows Fight for Food Justice

Current organizing fellows Jenny Msall and Joel Wool not only fight for change on the job, but work for food  justice in their spare time. Both Jennie and Joel serve on the board of the Dorchester Community Food Co-op, a … Read More

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Young Rabbis Speak

This article by Sid Schwartz originally appeared at Sh’ma. We asked three rabbis just beginning their rabbinical careers to reflect on their initial impressions of working within a synagogue. Rabbi Sid Schwarz, who has worked with each of these rabbis … Read More

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