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JVP Radio
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JVP Radio is a podcast by members of Jewish Voice for Peace, the world’s largest Jewish organization standing in solidarity with Palestine. New shows every other Wednesday.
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January 9, 2026
Episode 7 - Breaking Old Bonds, Building New Ones
<p>Across the U.S., local and state governments, universities, and other institutions support Israel's military and government by investing billions in Israel Bonds – direct, unrestricted loans to Israel.</p><p></p><p>In today's episode, we talk to JVP’s Campaigns Manager, Dani Noble, about <i>Break the Bonds</i>, JVP's ongoing campaign to divest from these loans. </p><p><br>Dani breaks down why we campaign, and what it takes to build a strategic campaign and shares organizing stories from across the country. <br><br><i>JVP Radio is produced by </i><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.rosaschwartzburg.com/"><b><i>Rosa Schwartzburg,</i></b></a><i> </i><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.fivelrothberg.com/"><b><i>Fivel Rothberg</i></b></a><i>, and </i><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.noemiehakimserfaty.com/"><b><i>Noémie Hakim-Serfaty</i></b></a><i>. Hosted by Noémie Hakim-Serfaty and Rosa Schwartzburg. Theme music “Lo Galerian” by </i><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.eleonoreweill.com/"><b><i>Eleanore Weill</i></b></a><i>. Art by </i><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://lioraostroff.com/"><b><i>Liora Ostroff</i></b></a><i>.</i></p><p></p><p><i>Sign up for the </i><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/subscribe-to-the-wire/"><b><i>JVP Wire</i></b></a><i> to keep up with news across the movement for a free Palestine and learn how to take action. Contact us at </i><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:podcast@jewishvoiceforpeace.org"><b><i>podcast@jewishvoiceforpeace.org</i></b></a><i>.</i></p><p><b><br>Learn More:</b></p><ul><li><b>Overview of Break the Bonds</b> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/12/05/israel-bonds-victories-27/"><i>(</i></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://JVP.org"><i>JVP.org</i></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/12/05/israel-bonds-victories-27/"><i>)</i></a></li><li><b>What is BDS? </b><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://bdsmovement.net/what-bds"><b><i>(</i></b><i>Palestinian BDS National Committee)</i></a></li><li><b>Inside the sophisticated sales operation funneling billions<i> </i></b><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.icij.org/news/2024/07/inside-the-sophisticated-sales-operation-funneling-billions-from-us-state-and-local-governments-to-israel/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CInvestors%20usually%20choose%20to%20invest%20for%20a,in%20almost%2075%20years%20of%20issuing%20bonds.%E2%80%9D"><i>(International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)</i></a></li><li><b>$27 million in divestment victories</b><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/12/05/israel-bonds-victories-27/"> <i>(</i></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://JVP.org"><i>JVP.org</i></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/12/05/israel-bonds-victories-27/"><i>)</i></a></li><li><b>No New Bonds in Cuyahoga County</b><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/12/09/no-new-bonds-in-cuyahoga-county/"><b> </b><i>(JVP.org)</i></a></li><li><b>Break the Bonds New York State</b><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/btb-nys/"> </a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/12/05/israel-bonds-victories-27/"><i>(JVP.org)</i></a></li></ul><p></p>
December 3, 2025
Episode 6 - SWANA & Arab Jews Part 02: From Cultural Return to Right of Return
<p>In this episode, singer <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lauraelkeslassy.com/"><b>Laura Elkeslassy</b></a> and writer/organizer Shir<b> </b>look back at a decade of Mizrahi/Arab-Jewish Left organizing in New York City — from art and feminist, egalitarian prayer services to active solidarity with Palestine. Together, we dive into what it takes to move beyond the Arab–Jewish binary, reclaim our full selves, and tie our practices of return with the Palestinian struggle for the right of return.<br></p><p><b>SHOW NOTES</b></p><ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g3Km0Puw_XuGiMYRH_idCvO4c2_YiMXvY529cUdR9co/edit?usp=drivesdk">Reading List on Mizrahi, Sephardi, SWANA and Arab Jews</a></li><li>Shohat, Ella. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.plutobooks.com/product/on-the-arab-jew-palestine-and-other-displacements/"><i>On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings.</i></a> Pluto Press, 2017.</li><li>Bahar, Shirly. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/the-injured-body/"><i>Documentary Cinema in Israel-Palestine: Performance, the Body, the Home.</i></a> I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. </li><li>Elkeslassy, Laura. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lauraelkesslassy.com">Website</a>.</li><li>Elkeslassy, Laura. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXUccCpyFQ"><i>Ya Ghorbati </i>Concert</a>, performed and recorded in May 2021</li><li>Elkeslassy, Laura. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://ayinpress.org/folio/ya-ghorbati-divas-in-exile/"><i>Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile</i></a> (multimedia album). </li><li>Elkeslassy, Laura. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/ya-ghorbati">Ya Ghorbati: DIvas in Exile</a> (Vinyl Record for purchase)</li></ul><p><br><b>GLOSSARY</b></p><ul><li><b>Hazzanim</b> – Plural of <i>hazzan</i>, the prayer leader in a Jewish synagogue, traditionally responsible for chanting prayers and leading the congregation in song.</li><li><b>Selichot</b> – Penitential prayers recited in the days leading up to the High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), often late at night or early in the morning, seeking forgiveness and reflection.</li><li><b>Egalitarian Prayer</b> – A style of Jewish prayer in which all participants, regardless of gender, have equal roles in leading prayers.</li><li><b>Baqashot</b> – A pre-dawn tradition of Mizrahi supplicatory songs. The practice draws on local Islamic devotional traditions, particularly Sufi night prayers and du‘ā’ (supplications), blending Jewish liturgy with the poetic and musical forms of the surrounding Muslim world.</li></ul><p><br><b>CREDITS</b></p><p>Host & Producer: Noémie Hakim-Serfaty</p><p>Host & Producer: Rosa Schwartzburg</p><p>Producer & Sound Mix: Fivel Rothberg</p><p><br>Intro Music: <i>Lo Galerian</i> performed by Eleonore Weil</p><p>Transitions and outro Music from Laura Elkeslassy’s upcoming album <i>Ya Ghorbati</i> | Divas in Exile</p><ul><li><i>Sidi Habibi</i>, folk after Salim Halali.</li><li><i>Ya Ghorbati,</i> after <i>Ma guitare et mon pays</i> composed by Maurice El Medioni and interpreted by Line Monty.</li><li><i>Abiadi Ana</i>, after Zohra El Fassia</li></ul><p>Music Production: Ira Khonen Temple, Eylem Basaldi, Laura Elkeslassy.</p><p>Vocals: Laura Elkeslassy</p><p>Key, Accordion, Piano: Ira Khonen Temple</p><p>Violin : Eylem Basaldi</p><p>Oud & Taqsim: Rachid Halihal</p><p>Guitar: Yoni Avi Battat</p><p>Drums: April Centrone, Nizar Dahmani</p><p>Bass : Marwan Allam, Zoe Aqua</p>
November 20, 2025
Episode 5 - SWANA & Arab Jews Part 01: Imagining Return
<p>How can return for SWANA and Arab Jews be a visionary gesture? </p><p><br></p><p>This is the question our guests ask on JVP Radio Episode 5 - SWANA and Arab Jews: Imagining Return. Writer and curator Camille Lévy-Sarfati speaks about returning to Tunisia as a political act of resistance — a way to imagine narratives beyond the ones prescribed by Zionism. And scholar Livnat Konopny-Decleve shares her work on political imagination: how we can revisit the past not as a reactionary gesture, but as a revolutionary act that frees us from the dogmas of the present and allows us to build a liberated future. Together, we reflect on the work many of us have been doing over the last few years to build a global Mizrahi / SWANA Jewish Left in solidarity with Palestine.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode is part one of a two-part series dedicated to SWANA and Arab Jewish organizing. From NYC to Tunis our guests share how they are dismantling the Arab-Jewish binary by returning to their cultures and forging a future grounded in solidarity and collective liberation. </p><p></p><p><b>CREDITS</b></p><p>Host & Producer: Noemie Hakim-Serfaty</p><p>Host & Producer: Rosa Schwartzburg</p><p>Producer & Editor: Fivel Rothberg</p><p></p><p>Intro Music: <i>Lo Galerian</i> by Eleonore Weil</p><p>Transitions and outro Music from Laura Elkeslassy’s upcoming album <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXUccCpyFQ"><i>Ya Ghorbati | Divas in Exile</i></a></p><ul><li><i>Ahalan Wa Sahalan</i>, written and composed by Maurice El Medioni</li><li><i>Ala Srir Enum</i>, after Habiba Msika.</li><li><i>Abiadi Ana</i>, after Zohra El Fassia</li></ul><p>Violin Taqsim by Eylem Basaldi</p><p>Oud Taqsims by Rachid Halihal</p><p>Music Production: Ira Khonen Temple, Eylem Basaldi, Laura Elkeslassy. </p><p>Vocals: Laura Elkeslassy</p><p>Key, Accordion, Piano: Ira Khonen Temple</p><p>Violin: Eylem Basaldi</p><p>Oud: Rachid Halihal</p><p>Drums: April Centrone, Nizar Dahmani</p><p>Bass: Marwan Allam, Zoe Aqua</p><p>Choir: Laura Elkeslassy, Yoni Avi Battat, Marwan Allam, Ira Khonen Temple, Eylem Basaldi, Nozar Dahmani, Rachid Halihal. </p><p></p><p><b>SHOW NOTES</b></p><ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g3Km0Puw_XuGiMYRH_idCvO4c2_YiMXvY529cUdR9co/edit?usp=drivesdk">Reading List on Mizrahi, Sephardi, SWANA and Arab Jews</a></li><li>Shohat, Ella. “<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://palestinecollective.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/sephardim-in-israel_-zionism-from-the-standpoint-of-its-jewish-victims.pdf">Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims</a>.” (1988)</li><li>Shohat, Ella. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.plutobooks.com/product/on-the-arab-jew-palestine-and-other-displacements/"><i>On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings</i></a><i>.</i> (2017)</li><li>Lavie, Smadar. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496205544/wrapped-in-the-flag-of-israel/"><i>Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture.</i></a> (2018)</li><li>Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-jewelers-of-the-ummah"><i>The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World</i></a><i>.</i> (2024)</li><li>Livnat Konopny-Decleve’s film, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vimeo.com/user11276841/roseofioninna?share=copy"><i>The Rose of Ioannina; </i></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://nessij.com/">Nessij Collective</a>, co-founded by Camille Lévy-Sarfati</li></ul>
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