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“I am proud to be a member of Linke Fligl. They are creating and nurturing an amazing ‘Option 3’ Judaism that is rooted in tradition and radical community”

Rabbi Benay Lappe, founder & Rosh Yeshiva, SVARA

I love Linke Fligl - the land and the chickens and this sacred community. This project helps me imagine how I want to live in right relationship with land and with people. LF supports my vision for what Jewish community can look like when we're committed to Indigenous land sovereignty and reparations for Black people here and now.

Rachel Kipnes, Rabbinical student, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Faith Matters Network intern

“Linke Fligl has nourished, held and pushed me to grow in such powerful ways over the years. I'm honored to be part of cultural organizing in this ecosystem, and I hope to keep growing and learning with LF for a long time to come.”

Batya Levine, LF Cultural Organizing Team member, Rising Song Institute alumni

“I love Linke Fligl because it is a place I can go to connect to spirit and queer Jewish community. Being able to get out of the city and spend time in nature has been so important to keeping me going as a human and to helping me maintain the kind of perspective and connection that I need to keep doing the work I do.  Spending time at Linke Fligl has been a lifeline.”

Megan Madison, LF Cultural Organizing Team member, JFREJ & JOIN board member 

“Linke Fligl has been a part of my personal healing process since 2016. Linke Fligl is sheer brilliance and has lit my way back into connection with my ancestors after years of alienation and assimilation.!”

Rena Branson, LF Cultural Organizing Team member & Queer Niggun Project founder

“I took away that all of our work and all of our lives bring us back to this land and its stories. I think that I need to appreciate what this land gives me more often, because I have so much privilege - even doing this work is a privilege - and much of that privilege comes from the land. So much of our work comes back to taking care of our land and its original stewards, but also allowing it to take care of us. I’m also taking away that the land can ground us, and strengthen our connections to each other, to our work, to ourselves, and to the Divine.”

Jewish Youth Climate Movement board member & diasporism workshop participant

“I was blessed to attend a workday at Linke Fligl. The day centered Jews of Color as the day’s leaders. We prayed, worked, laughed, shared stories, ate from the land, and most importantly created connection. I was honored to lead the Mincha (afternoon meditation prayer). We talked a lot about the allowance of joy and the deep need to allow JOY to be APART of the journey of our individual social justice causes and fights and not just the reward. My Jewbu heart (jewish and buddhist) is still swooning.”

JOC farm day participant

 “I’m having a hard time finding the right words to describe what celebrating Sukkot at Linke Fligl with 40 radical queer Jews of varying identities has brought up for me. Never in my very secular and assimilated life would I have thought I’d find a home for myself in Judaism”

Sukkot participant

“A radically inclusive queer Jewish world is possible, and on a quiet day I can hear her singing... as someone who has never heard of (much less celebrated) Sukkot, stepping on to the land at Linke Fligl and going straight to work building the sukkah which held the fullness of 40 queer, trans, POC, white, cis, urban, rural, diasporic, african, asian, soviet, orthodox, reform, reconstructionist, atheist, searching, longing, and rooted Jewish souls felt magical beyond words… I am so deeply grateful for all of the hands, hearts, minds, and spirits who created this container through song, food, ritual, prayer, reiki, naps, herbs, trampolines, dancing, full moons, rooster squacks, dish washing, poop scooping, beautifying, and deeply caring for one another. in the words of one of the core cultural organizers ida, ‘this is my home, you are my family’”

Sukkot participant