WE ARE FAMILY. WE ARE MANY. AFROJEWISH, BORICUA, NATIVE MEXICAN, SEPHARDI, EUROPEAN, PERSIAN. AND MORE. WE ARE NOT A RACE, WE ARE PEOPLE.
THIS IS US
Olamim offers a learning community for families and individuals who hold a wide diversity of identities.
Our families hold Latin Jewish identity in a variety of ways. Whether through immigration from Latin America, marriage and family-making, conversion or adoption, all are welcome.
We center the Latin Jewish experience and the many expressions of Judaism and Latinidad.
At Olamim, we cultivate and enjoy our family identities, and build community through it!
These are our values
Simcha, Alegria
Offering each other a joyful experience of being Latin, Jewish, and other aspects of who they are is a powerful way to pass on to our children what we most care about, and to build resilience as parents.
Brit, Compromiso
Our commitment to families is the core element of our program success. They drive our research, our partnerships, and our program design. We also ask that they commit to each other and the mission of Olamim through their participation.
Shutafut, Contribuir
Everyone contributes. Our intergenerational community is full of talent, vision, and an incredible capacity to generate a culturally-responsive setting for each other.
Aylu v’Aylu, Co-Existir
We are family. We co-exist as many. Afro-Jewish, Boricua, Native Mexican, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Persian. Queer, and Hetero. And more. We are not a race. We are people. Together we strive to engage the wholeness of who we are, not just our parts.
Shomrei Adamah & Tarbut, Respeto
Connection to and respect for nature and culture are interrelated and just as important. Both are sources of strength, joy, and resilience for our communities. We also know that beyond conservation, we are also involved in transformation.
Kehillah, Comunidad
Olamim drives change through its impact in concentric areas - the family, communal institutions, and our broader understandings and narratives about identity, learning, and community. In this interrelated way, we build greater inclusion and belonging within and across communities.
Family leadership
Our families are the core element of our program success.
We are full of talent, vision, and incredible capacity to generate what we want for our children.
Olamim cultivates family participation and cultural responsiveness as the foundation for inclusion and belonging in the larger Jewish community.
We truly are the ones we've been waiting for. For us, self-definition and family leadership is always at the core of program growth and development.
Join us in developing our community offerings!
“Olamim is one of the only spaces where our family’s Latin Jewish lineages come together. We are grateful for this opportunity to co-create a container where kids feel accompanied in the complexities of their identities. And we love the orientation to nature as space holder”
— Mer Al Dao