During the High Holy Days, Jews observe a ritual called tashlich, in which we symbolically cast our sins into a moving body of water. This year, Chicago IJAN gathered to cast away the sins of the occupation of Palestine, the colonial Zionist project, and the complicity of the U.S. government and U.S. Jewish community in the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people. Together, we acknowledged these wrong-doings, and recommitted ourselves to making them known and making them end. Using materials from AJJP in Philadelphia, we conducted the ceremony at rush hour across from the Israeli consulate, at one of the busiest intersections in Chicago, on a bridge over the Chicago River.

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