Our Values

Making Mensches is a home for anti-zionist Jewish folks. This is our hardline, that we refuse to move on. There are radical Jewish spaces for a spectrum of beliefs, there are spaces for unlearning of Zionism, and these are holy spaces - but we are not doing that work. Our work is holding our queer, anti-Zionist community close and allowing folks space to return to Jewish ritual and spirituality safely. We know what it is to feel the betrayal of being part of normative, Zionist Jewish institutions and then being rejected by them. We know what it is to come to anti-zionism because of the values that these institutions taught us, and then be told we are bad, or wrong, or misguided, or not Jewish anymore. That trauma and pain is why we fight for this space to exist, so we can all practice the Judaism we love.

Ashkenormativity, anti-convert sentiment, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, and any other forms of discrimination are not welcome in our spaces.