About

ORGANIZING TEAM

Jessica rosenberg

Content Editor, Jessica Rosenberg (she/her), makes meeting agendas, tuna noodle casseroles, and, now, calendars. She enjoys getting up with the sun, organizing for the just redistribution of resources, and propagating wandering Jews of all kinds.

Ayeola Omolara Kaplan

Calendar Artist/Layout Editor, Ayeola Omolara Kaplan (She/Her) was the quiet emo girl at the back of the classroom drawing her anime crushes. Today she can still be found swooning over fictional characters and drawing more than she talks. She's fascinated by Jewish magick, abolitionist politics, and psychology.

elissa martel

Art Editor, Elissa Martel (she/her) has been a weird art kid since childhood, and peaked in 4th grade when she sang with Celine Dion. Most recent peak has been working on this amazing calendar with a team of babes, obvi.

Ariana katz

Layout Editor, Ariana Katz (she/her) learned how to do layout from being a nerdy high schooler hiding in the newspaper office and making zines. She likes ritual, intergenerational revolutionary learning, remembering birthdays, and parshat hashavuah.

 5785 Call for artists

The call for artists for the 9th Radical Jewish Calendar is here! Organized by Jewish month, layering Jewish & Gregorian dates. Living in Jewish time, learning Jewish and radical movement history.

We are looking for 13 people or teams (no more than 3 people per team) to design the art for each month and the cover. Please note: this year we have a theme. Existing artworks are welcome! You are invited to submit art, collage, visually compelling text, that:

• Expresses solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian people and lands

• Captures a moment in radical anti-zionist~Jewish history (expansive definitions of both)

• Captures a moment or a concept of doykeit/hereness/diasporism (a la Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz)

• Portrait of a person, teacher, elder, movement leader related to anti-zionism, Jewish leftism, and Palestinian solidarity

If you are interested in including text in your artwork, we ask that you imagine the text up on a wall and adjust the size accordingly.

How to submit art: Fill out this Google form AND send a high resolution jpeg (300 ppi) to RadJCal@gmail.com that:

• Is horizontal

• Size 8.5” x 11”

• 0.25” border around each side

• Scanned on a flatbed scanner

  Submissions due by 13 of Nisan 5784 / April 21, 2024

We’re not just looking for art! We are seeking contributions to our list of important radical dates and historical events. Fill out this form with your ideas: Radical Jewish Calendar History: Tell Us What to Include!

We will let artists know by May if your art has been selected. Artists receive one free calendar and get paid! The exact amount depends upon sales, expenses, and the number of contributing artists. Last year, artists were paid $500, including each artist that submitted on a team. Artists will be paid once the printing and shipping process is complete in the fall.

This year we will give 18% of calendar sales to Palestinian-led organizations and movement work.

We look forward to creating this with you! Please share this call, and reach out if you have any questions.

ordering

The Radical Jewish Calendar is organized by Jewish month, layering Jewish and Gregorian dates, astrological happenings, holidays, and political history. 12 months of political art, culture, and history made by dreamers, artists, and organizers who want to know what time it is. Get the 7th of edition of the calendar celebrating Jewish culture that is intersectional, queer, feminist, anti-racist, and that challenges and builds a Judaism and Jewishness beyond Zionism.

This project was dreamed up by friends and comrades who were tired of using chabad calendars with advertisements for cemeteries as their only reference for Jewish holy days. We have rejected some of the dates we find on a “traditional” Jewish calendar, holidays that celebrate contemporary militarism and nationalism exclusively (ie. Yom Ha’atzmaut). We chose to include dates that, while challenging to our queer, feminist and anti-Zionist values, hold a centuries of Jewish tradition and culture (ie. Chanukkah). We have added days that reflect and build the Judaism and Jewish culture that we want to live: that celebrate queer and feminist history; honor the racial, ethnic, cultural and historical diversity within Jews; and that lift up resistance to the Occupation of Palestine.

We know that there is so much more that could be included: more leftist Jewish history and culture to be made visible and celebrated, more dates to include that celebrate Mizrahim, Sephardim and Jews of Color in Jewish life and history. We will work, for as many years as we create this calendar, to uncover more untold stories, places and people, and to be part of creating, contributing to, and growing from the Jewish left.

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In The News

Jewschool

Jessica about living in Jewish time as a means of resistance, in the Fall of 5778.

Treyf podcast

Jessica and Ariana on Treyf Podcast in the Fall of 5778.

Days of Awe

Radical Jewish Calendar in the academy! Cited in Atalia Omer’s 2019 book.