40 Days of Teshuvah – Commemorate Tisha B’Av

Join us for Tisha B’Av on Sunday, July 18th at 1pm ET / 10am PT for our community screening for 40 Days of Teshuva, followed by a guided discussion around the themes and spiritual tools present in the film, and share ideas around how Jewish spiritual practices can be integrated into our own efforts for repair and justice.

At 2pm ET, filmmaker Hannah Roodman, action organizer Yehudah Webster, IOWA Director Rabbi David Jaffe, and others will join us for a live Q&A discussion around the film, and the racial justice work ahead. 

Jewish communities around the world are hosting community screenings of The Inside Out Wisdom and Action (IOWA) Project’s short film, 40 Days of Teshuvah. This event is the culmination of these screenings, bringing us together on Tisha B’Av. The film offers a powerful model for integrating Jewish spiritual tools and technologies like prayer, teshuva and Mussar into the work of social change in general and racial justice in particular. The short film, by director and producer Hannah Roodman, documents last summer’s 40 Days of Teshuvah action in Grand Army Plaza. Yehudah Webster and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) protested for 40 days culminating with Tisha B’Av 2020. This demonstration came to being after the brutal murder of George Floyd and the racial justice uprising last summer. For 40 Days, organizers cried out to the heavens, blew the shofar, and mourned the destruction of black and brown bodies at the hands of the racist systems that exist today.