Days of Ancestral Attunement

October 16 - 23, 2024

immerse in liberatory devotion

a project of Jewish Ancestral Healing & From The Deep

* sacred conversations * creative explorations & calls to action * ancestral attunement *

choose your own adventure. asynchronous offerings shared daily in our virtual portal.

From the Deep is committed to earth-loving liberatory devotional practice. We are elementally attuned & ancestrally engaged. We support a free Palestine. While many of us have steeped in Judaism, we are not singularly yoked to it. We connect with what nourishes our ancient roots, embraces emergent dreams & supports collective liberation. We pray with Goddexx, earth & body @ the center.

Our Ancestral Attunement portal features the sacred magics and wisdom of myriad collaborators including …

Andy Izenson

…is a Spinozan pantheist weirdo Jew, a time traveling transsexual, and an attorney, law professor, and facilitator of transformative justice processes with fifteen years of experience in protest support and radical lawyering with the National Lawyers Guild. Andy is on the board of their renewal synagogue and they live on a tranarchist intentional community on Lenape land in the Hudson Valley of New York. Andy recently founded the teach-in series “The World That Is Coming: A Do’ikayt Teach-in” to unearth and explore a Jewish mystical anarchism, and have taught on the topic at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, the Worker’s Circle, and been published on it in the Brill Journal of Religion and the Arts and the Sage Journal for Critical Research on Religion. Andy’s work explores the interplay between mystical diasporism, gender antinomianism, sadomasochism, and ancestor veneration with an eye towards the triumph of the forces of faggotry over the state.

ariella aisha azoulay

…is an author, curator of anti-colonial archives, film essayist, and theorist of photography. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is of Algerian and Palestinian descent and identifies as a Muslim Jew, which she powerfully unpacks in her article Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongues.

Azoulay recently completed a children story, Gold Threads, based on an early 20th century strike led by jewelers and gold spinners, acting also as guardians of the Muslim and Jewish world in Fes, Morocco. Ariella Aïsha’s newest book project is Algerian Letters - The Jewelers of the Ummah (Verso 2024), and its companion film, the world like a jewel in the hand.

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. 

hadar cohen

…Hadar is a feminist multi-media artist, healer and educator originally from Jerusalem. Her Mizrahi Jewish roots influence her approach to justice, healing, and spirituality. Hadar is the founder of Feminism All Night, a project that designs communal immersive learning experiences about feminism, and is the creator of Jerusalem In Exile, a psychosomatic film on the political and spiritual reality of Jerusalem. Hadar writes a new moon newsletter on the wisdom of Jewish time called "in loving faith". She teaches Jewish scripture and embodied practices through various platforms, including At The Well. Her artistic mediums include performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound and ritual. Hadar is currently a fellow at Abrahamic House, a multi-faith incubator for social change based in Los Angeles. You can check out more of her work at hadarcohen.me.

Langston Kahn

Leah Penniman

Leah Penniman (all pronouns) is a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author, and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, NY, which she co-founded in 2010 with the mission to end racism in the food system and to reclaim ancestral connection to land. As Co-ED and Farm Director, Leah is part of a team that facilitates powerful food sovereignty programs - including farmer training for Black & Brown people, a subsidized farm food distribution program for communities living under food apartheid, and domestic and international organizing toward equity in the food system. The work of Leah and Soul Fire Farm has been recognized by the Soros Racial Justice Fellowship, Fulbright, Heinz Prize, Pritzker Environmental Genius Award, Grist 50, and James Beard Leadership Award, among others. Leah is an African Traditional Priest (Awo/Olorisa/Manye) and has been a lay leader and Torah reader at Berith Sholom Congregation, Troy NY since 2005. Leah’s books, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (2018) and Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists (2023) are love songs for the land and her people.

Lisa Moriah

… is a priestess, shamanic practitioner, writer, drummer, artist and ritualist from the United States, who divides her time between the sacred land of Harran in southeastern Türkiye, and sacred lands of the Arab World and Central Asia.

Her work and life are devoted to remembering Shaddai, a Bronze Age Amorite goddess whom she believes was the original divinity of Abraham’s household. Her devotional work includes frame drumming and vocal sound prayers; excavating “herstory” from Jewish sacred texts; and facilitating the inner alchemy of feminine and masculine consciousness. She is also passionate about the complex relationship between the vocal chords and womb, and how the human voice can be used as a tool for clearing, opening and activating the pelvic temple.

Lisa Moriah offers activations and initiations for people who desire to recover the goddess and shamanic roots of their Jewish, Christian or Muslim heritage. She is also the author of several books, including Shaddai: Goddess of the Abrahamic Covenant and Call Back the Four Winds: Jewish Chant as a Healing Modality.

lyndsey scott

…is an artist-goofball-yintennae devoted to priestesSing the Heartland, (lit & fig). Weaving community singing as a "technology of Belonging," she gathers soul circles that decompose oppressive scripts thru Song, ritual, & heart-share. Her jams get you skippin easily between the sacred, sexy, and silly: your inner child, exiled banshee, + wise elder are all very invited to the party.

Typically sharing Song as live + extemporaneous + interactive practice, creating an album was nowhere on the radar until soul sister and community singing movement leader Lisa G (The Bird Sings) seeded the idea. Ripe fruit dropped easy, and first album Well Held came into form through dynamic collaboration with local friend, drummer, and producer, Michael Linder who transformed the sing-along meditation mantra into lush arrangements -- still easy to learn but way more fun to listen. This collaboration deepened in 2023 when Linder produced Over / Under, the dynamic prayer for prison abolition Lyndsey cowrote and recorded with incarcerated indigenous guitarist A-Rhodd.

Knowing collective singing to be a doorway for ritual & ecstatic practice, Lyndsey weaves music medicine like mycelial web between eco-villages, earth churches, activist hubs, and other 'imaginal cell' zones dreaming our Loving into Being.

mazal masoud etedgi

…is a trans and arab jewish artist, community herbalist, facilitator, and drama therapist living on Lenni-Lenape land (Philadelphia, PA). Their remedies, teachings and sessions are offered through their apothecary, B'samim Apothecary, and more recently on the Integrative Practitioner team at Charlie Health.  Maz finds home and joy in plants, silliness, and slow-moving creatures.

Sarah Salem

…is a nature-based youth mentor, plant lover, and Hebrew priestess, whose ancestors are Irish settlers and Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Sarah is devoted to the work and play of remembering our deeper connections with ourselves, each other and the more-than-human world.

Saskia Kahn

… is a photographer and educator from Brooklyn, New York, whose work is rooted in generational memory. Her work features portraits of youth, a fascination that stems from the stories of her grandmother surviving the Holocaust during her teenage years. Her ongoing multi-year project, I Can Smell the Water, explores the coastal landscapes that mark her family's diaspora, using photography and alternative processes. Kahn traveled to Latvia, where much of her family perished, and produced a series entitled Without Digging, a reflection on how land plays a role in trauma and memory. In 2024, National Monument Press published Without Digging as a risograph booklet. In 2022, NYC Parks exhibited her beach portraits as a large-scale, site-specific installation in Manhattan Beach Park to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Kahn's collaborative art project on queer and trans-identifying skateboarders in Baltimore, MD, earned her the Best Photography Thesis award at the 2022 Global Design Graduate Show.  www.saskiakahn.com

Taya Mâ Shere

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Traci Marx

…is a priestess of song, ritual, and healing. As a musical prayer leader and Kohenet, they lovingly tend sacred communities, offering paths of return to the earth, to the body, to the heart, and to each other. Traci is a Spiritual Leader at Kavana Cooperative on Duwamish & Coast Salish land (Seattle), brings music and Jewish ritual to liberation work, and officiates life-spiral ceremonies.