Episode 11: Arts and Activism in Judaism and Islam with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb and Ani Zonneveld

Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb is one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history. She is a pathfinding Jewish feminist, human rights activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community educator and master storyteller. Lynn has been a congregational rabbi since the fall of 1973 and Lynn engages in multifaith, intergenerational and multicultural organizing in solidarity with racial, indigenous, gender justice and Palestinian liberation struggles. Lynn sits on the Rabbinic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace and is board chair of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Rabbi Lynn is the author of several books, including Peace Primer II, She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of Renewed Judaism, World Beyond Borders Passover Haggadah and Trail Guide to the Torah of Nonviolence. Rabbi Lynn is a Shomeret Shalom, a practitioner of the Torah of nonviolence.

Ani Zonneveld is a writer, singer/songwriter, speaker, human rights defender, and founder and president of Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV), a global, grassroots faith-based human rights organization. Founded in 2007 in Los Angeles, MPV advocates for egalitarian expressions of Islam, for women’s rights, LGBTQI rights, freedom of expression, and freedom of and from religion or belief. MPV also promotes these values at the United Nations by challenging human rights abuses in the name of Islam, and by offering an inclusive understanding based on universal human rights and justice. In October of 2017 in Tunisia, Ani founded Alliance of Inclusive Muslims, a global umbrella organization spanning six continents and registered as a human rights association in Geneva and Uganda. Born and raised Muslim from Malaysia and based out of Los Angeles, she spearheads the progressive Muslim movement both internationally and in the U.S.