Print Copies of ORCJ and a wee Discord server
Hello!
The print copy of the Omer Reflections Coloring Journal is here! I've already made several trips to drop off piles of packages and I'm so grateful for the love that this offering has already received.
If you want a print copy, you can order it here.
If you're looking for other Omer counting resources or you'd like to count in community, I'm launching a tiny seasonal Discord server for folks to share along the way, ask questions, remind each other to count, and just meet other Jews.
The server will be seasonal in the sense that I will turn it off/archive it after Shavuot, so that it's not one more social setting you'll need to tend outside of this time of year. I'll host some quiet evening coloring sessions here and there, and there are rooms for coexisting in different ways (no audio body-doubling, audio-only live chatting, text chats, and even recorded voice messages with a bot to transcribe for better accessibility).
If you'd like to join, hop over here.
Wishing you all as much ease in the days leading up to Passover as is possible in the world in which we live.
Things I've found useful or worth noting in some way recently:
Jewish Prayers for Gaza - found through Tzedek Chicago's services and have reached for these often during the week
Pillar of Fire Haggadah - this is a beautiful offering for Passover, and I'm lucky to have some pages from the Omer Reflections Coloring Journal featured in it.
Gashmius Haggadah Companion - another beautiful Passover offering
Omer Calendar of Biblical Women - I preordered this and it's a really gorgeous book, psyched to add it to my already sizable Omer counting book collection.
Radical Jewish Calendar 5785 - There's a call for artist submissions and the deadline is this Sunday!
JVP's "Passover During a Genocide" - "JVP has compiled these offerings so we may continue the sacred work of mobilizing to end genocide and apartheid — and of building an expansive practice of Judaism beyond Zionism."
A Shulchan Orech Pledge for Passover - "This year, we will not fulfill the requirement of Shulchan Orech by eating a festive meal while the weaponized starvation of the Palestinian people is taking place." Actions to take and resources.
Wishing you an early Shabbat Shalom,
Yaakov