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ORGANIZING TEAM

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. When she’s not making the calendar, she’s looking at flowers, snacking, reading, or working her day-job as a children’s librarian.

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.

Ariana katz

Rabbi Ariana Katz (she/her)  is a queer white Ashkenazi femme. She is the founding rabbi of Hinenu, a congregation in Baltimore, MD. She is the co-author of “For Times Such as These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year” with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, co-host of God Crush, a podcast with Pastor Lura Groen, and creator of the podcast Kaddish. Katz graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2018, and is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. She was the founding layout editor of the Radical Jewish Calendar and continues on the layout team. She is a friend, partner, daughter, and parent to a toddler born on May Day.

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

This 5786 calendar, our 10th year, marks our first year in publication as a project of Signal Fire Radical Artist Cooperative.

In The News

Jewschool

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

Anti-Zionist Embodiment, Breath, and Belonging

What becomes possible when anti-Zionist Jews are more than “included” in a Jewish healing space, but are actually held as the beating heart of the collective?

Treyf podcast

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

Reconstructing Judaism

Reconstructing Judaism commissioned black Jewish artist, Ayeola Omomara Kaplan, to respond to the Movement Wide Day of Learning on Reparations through a piece of visual art.

Days of Awe

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