Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans

06/08/2026

In May 2025, ICE agents began showing up every day at the New Orleans Immigration Court—and so did our court observers. Now, it’s more than one year later, and ICE sightings at the New Orleans Immigration Court have become rare. Our court observers are still showing up every day that court is in session.

IMMIGRANTS BELONG HERE.

Organize with us! No prior experience necessary. To join our immigration court watch effort, become a member of one of these participating membership organizations: , , , ,

Are you a member of another movement organization locally? It’s likely we can easily on-board you, too. Scan the QR code. Linktree in bio.

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En mayo de 2025, los agentes de ICE comenzaron a presentarse a diario en el Tribunal de Inmigración de Nueva Orleans, al igual que nuestros observadores judiciales. Ha pasado más de un año y la presencia de ICE en dicho tribunal se ha vuelto poco frecuente; sin embargo, nuestros observadores siguen asistiendo todos los días que hay audiencias.

LOS INMIGRANTES PERTENECEN AQUÍ.

Organízate con nosotros. No se requiere experiencia previa. Para unirte a nuestra iniciativa de observación del tribunal de inmigración, hazte miembro de una de estas organizaciones participantes: , , , , .

¿Formas parte de otra organización activista local? Es muy probable que podamos incorporarte fácilmente también. Escanea el código QR. Encontrarás el enlace en nuestra biografía.

05/26/2026

This month at JVP New Orleans: art build meets base-building! Monday, June 01. 6-7:30P. The Warehouse (3014 Dauphine St.). All are welcome, including current, returning, and prospective members. Light food provided.

Masks required + provided for all indoor JVP gatherings. Have unmet access needs? DM with questions or to request accommodations.

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Dear Jewish New Orleanians: Do you recognize that the fights for immigrant rights, voting rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, economic justice—AND Palestinian liberation—are all ONE STRUGGLE? Shouldn’t your Jewish organizational affiliations reflect this moral consistency??! At JVP, we welcome your progressive convictions. Join us, and take pride in belonging to a Jewish organization again! You belong here.

05/22/2026

The dispossession of Palestinians isn’t just a racist rallying call for Israeli extremists: It is a daily reality for Palestinians across historic Palestine, one that is baked into the Israeli state’s treatment of Palestinians at every level.

05/22/2026

05/21/2026

(RNS) — The Jewish Diaspora Movement comes in response to U.S. Jewish legacy institutions’ unqualified support for Israel and their unwillingness to welcome forms Jewish practice that reject a focus on Israel.

05/19/2026

Join Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans for a Sunday night screening of Steal This Story, Please! at the Prytania Theaters at Canal Place. Q&A with the film’s co-director, Carl Deal (“Trouble the Water,” “Bowling for Columbine,” “Fahrenheit 9/11”) to follow, moderated by JVP NOLA’s Digital Media Lead, Brenna Gourgeot.

Steal this Story Please! follows the 30 year career of Amy Goodman, executive producer and founder of Democracy Now! Unflinching, independent journalism at its best, Amy Goodman shows us what reporting can be when it refuses to kneel to corporate interests. “Urgent, provocative, and unexpectedly funny” (Petula Dvorak) Steal This Story, Please! crafts a riveting portrait of journalism’s power— and peril— in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.

Find tickets and a link to the trailer in our bio. 🎥🗣️🎤

05/14/2026

Register: jvp.org/membermeeting

Save the date for the next JVP Virtual Mass Member Meeting: Wednesday, June 3 at 5-6:30pm PT / 8-9:30pm EST. ASL and CART provided.

Join JVP members across the country for the quarterly Mass Member Meeting, where we’ll explore these main areas:

Analysis: Deepen our analysis on this political moment of escalating genocide in Palestine, continued U.S. - Israeli war on Iran, Israel’s war on Lebanon, and rising authoritarianism in the US;
Strategy: Hear a strategic assessment from JVP leadership on where our organizing can be most effective right now and what campaigns the organization will escalate in the coming period;
Organizing: Get organizing updates from members and learn how to plug into that work.

To join us Wednesday, June 3 from 8-9:30pm EST, sign up at the link in our bio or at jvp.org/membermeeting.

05/07/2026

Jewish Voice for Peace is the world’s largest progressive, Jewish anti-Zionist organization, and we are proud to count ourselves among its members!

Join us at our NEW monthly organizing gatherings. Lean into anti-Zionism. Lean into relational organizing and community building. Be proud to struggle alongside your neighbors for a worthy cause.

Anti-Zionism is the center of our politics. Anti-Zionism is a way of life—it’s a way of relating to the world and to each other, a solidarity-oriented practice that deeply roots us here, in our communities! It’s a moral compass that helps us to see clearly: the struggle for Palestinian liberation is our struggle; all struggles against oppression, racism, and genocide are our struggles!

Know that your participation matters. In the U.S., there are no sidelines: we will make U.S. government complicity unsustainable; we will stand in opposition to the pro-fascist, pro-racist weaponization of antisemitism by Israel and its U.S. Jewish legacy organization collaborators; in the face of fearmongering and Zionist calls for isolationism, surrender, or retreat, our communities will reach further, grow larger, and show once more that ***HERE, WHERE WE LIVE*** we are never alone!

First Mondays. 6-7:30p. Check this page for updated locations and monthly meeting agendas. (These all-chapter gatherings will take the place of our weekly meeting schedule/format of the past year.) Masks required (and provided) for all indoor JVP gatherings. Have unmet access needs? DM Voice for Peace New Orleans with questions or requests for accommodations.

05/05/2026

The future is PROUDLY, UNAPOLOGETICALLY, ENTHUSIASTICALLY ANTI-ZIONIST! We welcome you to join us in our work for a FREE PALESTINE! Join JVP New Orleans at an upcoming monthly organizing gathering, the “first Monday” of each month, 6-7:30p. Watch for updated location info and monthly gathering agendas. All are welcome.

You can check out more coverage about last month’s liberation Seder from local member Joshua Rosenberg. Read the full brief on Joshua’s page. Linktree in bio. therosenbergbrief.com
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“‘People are looking for a space that’s honest and direct about what is happening, […] and it’s our Judaism and Jewish ritual being used to justify this genocide and actions in Gaza,’ Ariel Moyal, a member-leader with [JVP New Orleans], said.”
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“The reality is that Israel has been committing the most egregious crimes imaginable with total impunity. The reality is the world has watched a live-streamed genocide that Israel perpetrated against Palestine.

Any Seder, or any other ritual, would be empty if Jews were to ignore that reality, Moyal said.

And right now, people are seeking out spaces that honor that truth, Cypress Atlas, a member-leader with JVP NOLA told The Rosenberg Brief.

‘The things we’ve seen the most participation in have been ritual, holiday, Shabbat spaces. All the spaces that people might seek community through organized Judaism,’ Atlas said.

‘Institutional spaces ignore that truth at their own peril.’”