Interview With Jewish Anarchist Anastasia bat Lilith

In this episode, we sit down with Anastasia bat Lilith to explore the intersections of Jewish anarchism, spirituality, and organizing. From the roots and lineages that shaped her text Teshuva to the ways Jewish ritual, decolonial thought, and anarchist praxis inform her daily life, Anastasia offers a deep and vulnerable conversation on building liberatory community.

Together we dig into themes of teshuva as both practice and zine, the dangers of “unity” rhetoric, the struggle against hierarchy and piety, and how dysphoric and decolonial anarchist lineages guide organizing beyond settler secularism. We also journey through the history of the Jewish Zine Fest—its origins, intentions, and role as ritual space—while grounding in questions of family, antizionist study, and collective transformation.

This episode is a call to rethink what grounds us, what questions we hold, and what it means to organize spiritually, politically, and communally in the face of empire.

TIMESTAMPS

00:58 Who are you?

03:11 What lineage of Jewish anarchism are you drawing from for you text Teshuva and your active praxis?

06:30 How does the blending of Jewish and anarchist spiritual and political life show up for you

10:31 The past get a vote note a veto

14:17 What does teshuva mean to you and how is it explore din the zine

20:18 What sort of intervention is this zine having in the discourse

25:36 The abuse of unity in political rhetoric

29:47 Relationship with hierarchy and piety

33:38 How does dysphoric and decolonial anarchist lineages inform you current organizing

42:25 How do you approach building outside settler secularism with an anarchist spiritual ethic

45:53 what guides and grounds you when you in more mass organizing spaces

47:48 what sparked the organizing for the Jewish zine fest and how was the first one?

51:26 Anti-zionist Talmud history lesson

56:10 How has zine making and the culture you organizing around become a space for ritual or a ritual itself?

1:00:38 What intention are going into this years Jewish Zine Fest

1:03:36 After the zine fest can people still get merch or get involved in your efforts

1:04:37 How has this journey in organizing community impacted your thoughts on family

1:06:40 What do you want the readers of teshuva to carry with them after reading it?

1:07:51 What question are you sitting with after writng Teshuva?

1:09:34 Last thoughts for our listeners

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