Jewish, Anti-Zionist Care Workers Group

This last year has been an especially painful one for Jewish anti-Zionist care workers. For all the devastation experienced on October 7, 2023 — as well as long before and every day since — it has been our labor to care for the grief, sadness, powerlessness, rage, fear, despair, anguish, aggression, betrayal, shame, guilt, hopelessness, and all that arises within ourselves and our clients.

This is group facilitated by Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz, LCSW is intended as a space for people who are Jewish and anti-Zionist, visioning and creating a world without systems of supremacy, domination, or subjugation and thinking about the complexity of doing care work* in a world so out of alignment with Jewish values of justice and the sacredness of all life.

As we continue to process the traumatic events of this past year, we must ask ourselves:

  • Who is included in our grief? Who is excluded?

  • What are we willing to feel? and unwilling to feel?

  • Can we tend to our own trauma and pain, caring for our humanity, without resorting to dehumanizing others or seeking revenge?

  • How do these global political dynamics show up in our interpersonal dynamics as well? Within our intimate or professional relationships?

  • Do we have the strength to identify with our victimizing parts as well as our victim parts?

  • What are we willing and unwilling to sacrifice to be in alignment with our values?

Applications will be read on a rolling basis and and intake sessions for this group will take place in April. The group will begin on May 13, 2025.

*Care workers include a wide range of those who offer guidance, counseling, therapy; therapists and somatic practitioners, as well as rabbis or other care professionals.

Participation.

Participation in this group will include:

  • 2x 90-minute group sessions per month

  • A commitment of 6 months, with the option to continue, is required to participate

  • The group's enrollment will be capped at 10, and then stay closed, except when a member leaves/a new one joins. If we feel spacious, we can potentially add up to 12 people.

Schedule.

  • This group meets on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 Eastern

  • No sessions held in August (Summer Break) & December (Winter Break)

Finances.

The group will have a monthly membership fee, with the understanding that participants may inevitably need to miss sessions.

The following payment structure is inspired by and borrowed from the model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks and Skin and Spine with Joanna Hedva at Corporeal Writing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (retirement, savings, investments, expectation of an inheritance; how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and world); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$200/mo Solidarity

$150/mo True Value

$100/mo Community Care

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Please note:

The KTC Jewish, Anti-Zionist Care Workers Group is a peer support process group and not clinical supervision or group therapy.

You can contact Avigail with questions about the group via email. Applications will be read on a rolling basis with a focus on maintaining an intimate, generative environment.