Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans

09/13/2026

TASHLICH RITUAL & SONG CIRCLE, ft. the JVP New Orleans Jam Band | 📆 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 | ⌚️ 6-7:30P | 📍 CABRINI BRIDGE (Magnolia Bridge at Bayou St John)

Light refreshments provided. Optionally, participants are welcome to bring snacks or beverages for themselves or for sharing. Children and families welcome. ALL ARE WELCOME at our anti-Zionist Jewish ritual gathering.

Song circle is open to everyone. Bring an acoustic instrument, your voice, or just bring yourself!

Accessibility notes: outdoor location; area in front of the bridge features mostly grassy, uneven terrain; ritual will take place in the early evening, (as Shabbat draws to a close); there will be significantly reduced visibility after dusk. Have unmet access needs? DM Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans with questions or requests for accommodations.

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Tashlich is an Ashkenazi Jewish ritual that takes place in the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In the ritual, we are asked to “cast off” that which no longer serves us, symbolically reflected by the scattering of breadcrumbs or rice paper into a flowing body of water.

09/12/2026

09/10/2026

JVP NEW ORLEANS is humbled to welcome our members, friends, family, partners, prospective members, and community to join us in renewal & recommitment at our third annual Yom Kippur Community Break-Fast.

RSVP REQUIRED:
🔗 tinyurl.com/jvpnola-5787
Link in Linktree.

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WHEN:
📆 Monday, September 21.
⏰ Gather at 6p, ritual at 6:30p, break our fast at 7p.

LOCATION:
📍 NEW! Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park under the “NOLA Front Porch” (open-air, covered pavilion — near the intersection of Ursulines Avenue & North Peters Street)

MEAL:
🥗 Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans will provide bagels, schmear, and light snacks. Guests are asked to bring a dish to share, if able. We ask that all dishes be appropriate to a kosher-style dairy meal. Regardless of anyone’s ability to bring a dish—we’ll have plenty of food, and we want you with us! NOTAFLOF.

**More specifics can be found on the RSVP form.**

Everyone is welcome at the table, including Jews from any Jewish tradition, no Jewish tradition, folks with varying levels of Jewish education or no Jewish education, and folks who do not identify as Jewish. We strive to make our ritual gatherings accessible to all, and you are welcome to participate according to your needs, interests, and comfort level. Children welcome. RSVP required.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Outdoor, wheelchair accessible location. On-site restrooms. Reduced visibility after dusk, as lighting is provided but limited in some areas.

Have unmet access needs? DM Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans with questions or requests for accommodations.

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The future is anti-Zionist, and it is beautiful. For all those who seek life & liberation, we say: Welcome. Come in. Come home. Let’s build it, together! We’re not going anywhere—until Palestinian liberation, justice, and return!! Join us. You belong here. Free Palestine!

09/10/2026

Southern Jews aligned with the pro-Palestine movement are building “a Judaism of liberation” in the heartland of Christian Zionism

09/08/2026

Save the Dates! 📯🥯🕯️After a beautiful, community-led Shabbat last Friday, we are incredibly excited to bring in the High Holidays with you! JVP NOLA will gather for Tashlich and Song Circle, Yom Kippur morning service, evening Break Fast, and another Shabbat first Friday of October. JVP NOLA’s programming will center a recommitment to Palestinian liberation and the dismantling of all oppressive regimes that ensnare us and our neighbors. We welcome you and all your loved ones into this sacred new year with us. More details and registrations in an upcoming post. We will see y’all soon!

09/02/2026

🕯️🥖🎶 Time Change for Shabbat this Friday! As to not conflict with Prytania at Canal Place’s showing of American Doctor, we have moved up Shabbat by 30 minutes. Join us to welcome Shabbat and the month of Elul from 5:30-7:30 at Home is Here in Central City. ❤️ More details about the movie screening on the next slide.

08/30/2026

jvplab.org/highholidays5787

High Holidays 5787: Resolve, Renew, Recommit We are resolving to stay in the struggle. We are renewing our collective responsibility. We are recommitting to our vision of a transformed world. Nearly three years into the genocide in Gaza and two years into Trump’s attempted fascist reign, our grief...

08/30/2026

08/27/2026

SAVE THE DATE: Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans is humbled once again to welcome members, friends, family, partners, prospective members, and community to our third annual Yom Kippur Community Break-Fast.

Additional details to follow. (Join our email list—Linktree in bio, or watch this space for more announcements next week.) In the meantime, if you have any access questions/needs, or would otherwise like to get involved, please DM Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans.

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WHY HERE, WHY NOW? We gather at a moment of ever-more unprecedented sadness, rage, resolve, grief, growth, setbacks, perseverance, small wins, big wins, mounting threats, human suffering, burgeoning liberatory power, boundless care. Our hearts have never been more full nor more broken. This, all as Israel’s cruel tenure across all of Palestine rages on; Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people is still ongoing, and here in the U.S., officials have made the cause of propping up the Israeli regime a centerpiece of this administration’s violent, white supremacist agenda. AND YET, we’re still here, we’re still together—where else would we be??!

We know that a better world, a world where Palestine is free—from the river, to the sea—is not only possible, but UNSTOPPABLE!! And we’re not going anywhere—until Palestinian liberation, justice, and return!!

The future is anti-Zionist, we’re building it together, and it is beautiful. Join us. You belong here.

08/26/2026

Welcome Home! 🫂🥖🕯️ Registration is live for JVP NOLA’s September 4th Shabbat, the first in our Fall Shabbat Series. Find the link in our bio to register Whether you’ve been away for the summer or coming back from another journey, we can’t wait to see you there. We’ve missed you! Please DM us with questions or for further details.