Help Ari survive <div><strong>Hi, I'm Ari, and I need help with survival funds. </strong></div><div><br></div><div>I'm an antizionist Jewish educator who is bad at censoring myself and very good at leaving institutions with little notice. I live in Brooklyn, I teach and learn Talmud almost every day, I hope to teach more children (in explicitly antizionist contexts), and organize a once a month Shabbat evening minyan and am figuring out how to start a Shabbat AM minyan as well. </div><div><br></div><div>I cannot give my time and energy anymore to Zionist institutions. I cannot silently educate children whose parents expect me to teach them about the state of Israel as anything other than a settler state. I cannot attend synagogues that add liturgy to pray for IDF members and hostages but will not call for a ceasefire which could easily save all those lives and many more.</div><div><br></div><div>While I figure out how to find sustainable work, I need help to survive.</div><div><br></div><div>It is important to me because I want to live. If I don't have money, I cannot live.</div><div><br></div><div>I am working enough, the work I do is not recognized as worthy of being paid by most people though; so I am asking for help with surviving so that I can keep doing that work that I am doing.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>The funds will generally be broken down like this:</strong></div><ul><li>Rent for March ($1050-paycheck of $369): $681</li><li>Rent for April-August ($1050/month): $5250</li><li>Food for March - August: $3,000</li><li>Medication for March-August ($250/month): $1500</li><li>Cat care for March - August (litter, food, medications): $900</li><li>My birthday is in June and idk I would like to be nice to myself and not pretend it didn't happen: $500</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Okay, so why $20,000? </strong>Because the GoFundMes of Black trans ppl are never fully funded. So yes, while I need only $11,831 until August, I am nervous that if I set my goal there I will never get close. I also plan to keep this open past August, because while my lease expires then, I have no clear idea of what will happen after that. If I'm self sufficent by then, I will close this, but if not, I will ask for more.</div><div><br></div><div>Sending everyone who read this and who can share and support me so many blessings. We are all struggling so much, thank you for considering helping me in the midst of so much pain.</div><div><br></div>

Elizabeth Alpern

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