Koach Baruch Frazier: Judaism Unbound Episode 275 - Rhythms of Sacred Protest
Koach Baruch Frazier -- a musician, activist, audiologist, and rabbinical student -- joins Dan and Lex for a conversation that upends the dichotomy of prayer, on the one hand, and action, on the other. Frazier looks back at their own journey toward the rabbinate, and in doing so considers what drumbeats, the inner ear, and silence have to teach us. As it turns out, listening to what these vessels of sound have to say can help unlock many important concepts in contemporary Judaism, and in contemporary strivings for justice. This episode is the third episode in a series that intertwines explorations of Judaism, through lenses of transgender experience, and explorations of gender, through lenses of Jewish experience.
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[1] Learn more about Koach Baruch Frazier by clicking here. Check out the Tzedek Lab, which Frazier co-founded, by heading to TheTzedekLab.com. The Tzedek Lab is a national multiracial network of political education trainers, organizers, spiritual leaders, and cultural workers, Jews and allies, established to build collective competency to better politicize, transform, and inspire the Jewish community into collective action against racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy.
[2] Dan begins his introduction of Frazier by citing their powerful talk, given through Avodah’s “Speak Torah to Power” series. You can view the full talk here.
[3] Frazier mentions the the AME (African Methodist Episcopal) church, and its founder Richard Allen. Learn more about AME’s history at this link.
[4] Frazier gives a shout-out to Graie Hagans, the Vision Praxis Director at Bend the Arc. For video of a training led by Hagans, which Frazier helped to facilitate, click here.