In a NY Daily News op-ed, Zioness Founder and CEO Amanda Berman urges New York City’s mayoral candidates to move beyond empty rhetoric and address the urgent rise in antisemitism with concrete policy solutions. Amanda elucidates on the Jewish community’s growing vulnerability and challenges leaders to ensure safety, inclusion, and representation for all.
On July 19, members of the Black and Jewish communities came together to help paint a Compton high school as part of a day of service dubbed “Shared Hoped Tour.” Throughout the day, volunteers helped paint, clean and plant trees at Compton Academy of Technology and Innovation, a new high school overseen by Compton Unified …
“I think overwhelmingly, Democrats have not done a good job, and the proof is in the pudding, that even staunch Democrats who would never consider supporting Donald Trump or ever vote for a Republican are just really pained by what feels like a refusal to even acknowledge the seriousness of the threat of the Iranian …
More than 50 years after the first Freedom Seder wove Jewish ritual with the Black freedom struggle, over 200 leaders and community members gathered at Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles to carry that legacy forward. Co-hosted by Van Jones, Amanda Berman, Greater Zion Church of Compton, Stephen Wise Temple, Zioness, and Deborah Marcus, this …
The 2025 Freedom Seder LA, hosted by Zioness Movement and a coalition of prominent Black, Jewish, and Black-Jewish leaders, brought over 200 changemakers together for an evening of shared ritual, relationship-building, and liberation-focused dialogue. Rooted in the traditions of Passover and the story of Exodus, the event created space for emotional and strategic connection at …
