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Climate Arts and Spiritual Adaptation Fellow

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action

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Posted on Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action’s mission is to secure a just, livable and sustainable world for all people for generations to come by building a multi-generational Jewish movement that confronts the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action.

The 2023-2024 Climate Arts and Spiritual Adaptation Fellow will work closely with Dayenu’s Director of Spiritual Activism & Education and with Dayenu leaders and artists across the country to grow and spiritually-resource the Jewish climate movement, especially through music and writing / storytelling.

We are building a spiritually-rooted movement through:

  • Spiritual Adaptation Workshops: We create brave spaces for American Jews across generations, geographies, and identities to face climate realities, process grief, envision a just, livable future, and set off on a path of bold, resilient action. This work is currently based on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects spiral and we have been exploring other modalities of Jewish practice like mussar.
  • Climate Music & Arts: We are amplifying, resourcing, and growing the fields of Jewish climate music and visionary writing / climate storytelling with the aim of inspiring and mobilizing the Jewish climate movement. In 2022-2023, with the support of our rabbinic fellows, we curated and launched a new songbook and a new creative visionary writing branch of climate arts: midrash + imagination. We are excited for a Climate Arts Fellow to keep building on this work, particularly in the realm of writing, and to leverage it more broadly in activist spaces, on social media, in shuls, on the streets, and in solidarity and collaboration with frontline and multifaith communities.
  • Climate Torah: We anchor all of our movement-building and campaign work in Jewish classical and contemporary sources, holiday cycles, and cultural wisdom. We believe that Torah (writ large) can help us live well in this time of transformation, grief, possibility, active hope, and uncertainty, and can be a powerful guide for our justice work.

This position starts September 5, 2023 and ends May 31, 2024 (38 weeks), with a commitment of 8 hours per week on average. Stipend is $10,000, which is $33/hour.

The position is fully remote for fellows based anywhere in the United States or Canada with the option of working at the Dayenu office at 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1800, New York, New York. This position reports to Dayenu’s Director of Spiritual Activism and Education, Rabbi Laura Bellows, who is based in Boston. Fellows will receive mentoring, training and supervision from staff at Dayenu as well as the support, if a clergy student, of a small Dayenu clergy fellowship cohort.

Apply by Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Please contact to inquire about any remaining openings.

Role description:

This fellowship position will focus on sustaining and growing the Climate Music and Spiritual Adaptation realms of our work.

  • Support the use of the new songbook and the integration of Jewish music at Dayenu actions, trainings, Dayenu Circle gatherings, campaign kickoffs, and other events.
  • Help spiritually resource the Jewish climate movement by growing and implementing Dayenu’s newest Climate Arts: visionary writing – writing the stories of a just, livable future and how we get there. This may include: working collaboratively to create a plan for sharing writing from our spring 2023 “Midrash & Imagination” writing workshop, gathering and facilitating spaces to generate new midrash-inspired climate writing or leading a call for writing.
  • Track the results of your work and make adjustments to meet shared goals.
  • Support Spiritual Adaptation workshop planning, coordination, and ideation.
  • Participate in group and individual reflection on climate work as rabbinic practice.
  • Contribute to building a culture and practice of spirit, joy, impact, ritual, and community.

Qualifications:

  • Jewish textual knowledge and comfort with Hebrew.
  • Experience utilizing music, arts, and/or ritual for spiritually-rooted activism.
  • Works well independently and collaboratively.
  • Experience organizing in a Jewish context, or organizing experience plus experience in Jewish communities.
  • A track record of working with people across lines of difference and a commitment to anti-racist practice.
  • Strong listening skills and interpersonal communication including over phone, video, email, and text.
  • Experience working closely with culture-makers and artists is a plus.

Dayenu is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to racial equity and accessibility. Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA people are strongly encouraged to apply. We know historically that women and people of color don’t apply to jobs unless they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you think you might be a good fit even if you don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements. Dayenu does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, sex, age, gender identity or expression, or other status protected by applicable law.

This job is no longer accepting applications

See open jobs at Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action.