Life = Liberation = Love
with Elana-June Margolis
“You shall LOVE
Palestinian Liberation
With all your heart With all your might With all your being
You shall speak of your love of Palestinian Liberation
When you lie down & when you RISE UP.”
In this conversation between Taya Mâ & Elana-June Margolis, Elana-June speaks of the current context, Palestinian liberation and the weaving of self-love and sacred action in the world into a kind of audacity that brings healing for all.
How Do You Embody Audacious Love in the World?
Elana-June Margolis
…Elana June Margolis (she/her) is a Queer anti-Zionist Jewish teacher, artist and ordained Kohenet (Priestess). Her work is dedicated to realigning texts and ritual/ pedagogical technologies in service of personal healing towards collective liberation.
Elana June is committed to creating containers for Jewish people to experience and embody a Judaism beyond Zionism. Her teaching and ritual leadership is rooted in Jewish mysticism, earth-based practice, abolitionism, feminism, anti-racism, disability justice, queer theory and TRANScendence. She is particularly passionate about working with Jewish Time as a form of diasporic architecture - allowing Jews to locate their Jewishness within the wheel of the year and through life-cycle ritual.
Elana June has worked in the Waldorf World for over a decade, serving as a class teacher at the East Bay Waldorf School and Brooklyn Waldorf School. In 2022, she co-founded and led a teacher training initiative for emerging Brooklyn Waldorf teachers in partnership with the Sunbridge Waldorf Teacher Training Institute. She has served as a mentor for teachers seeking to gain their footing in the Waldorf world while decolonizing the pedagogy and practice. Elana June is currently taking a sabbatical from full-time classroom teaching.