Melissa Nussbaum Freeman (she/her/goddexx) is a Queer, Sefardi/Ashkenazi, self-loving, anti-zionist abolitionist, who uses theater, art and ritual to stir the good-trouble pot as often as possible. Passion is her motor; her backup engine is a wild belief in the change that moves towards justice. melissa@jvp.org www.tinyurl.com/melissanussbaumfreeman.

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Elul convo:

• Leil S’lichot: Evening of Supplication, the point in the month of Elul when some communities begin reciting the S’lichot prayers, asking for forgiveness

• Queer post-Soviet maker of shofarot: @zhyd0vka 

• Tefillin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUsDP1PqVZw

• Al Nes: For the Miracle We Have Enlivened https://rebekaherevstudio.com/blog/2020/10/2/al-nes-for-the-miracle-we-enlivened

• T’shuvah: Often translated as Repentance, it literally means return, as in return to wholeness.

Interview:

• Jewish Voice for Peace Havurah network: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/havurah-network/

• Taproot: https://www.taprootcommunity.org/

This way to Olam haBa:

• Stolen Beam: https://ikar.org/sermons/our-country-was-built-on-a-stolen-beam-the-call-for-a-national-reckoning/

Song:

• Lulei Hemanti is the last two lines from psalm 27, which is traditional to recite every day of Elul.