sophia
alhadeff
the olam haba community quilt
In mid October of 2024, Sophia Alhadeff and Sophia Munic met at a Jewish Voice for Peace meeting in Minneapolis and began the process of making a community quilt as a reaction to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
This quilt is a site to bear witness to the genocide, to hold our collective grief & to dream Palestinian liberation, stitch by stitch.
Olam HaBa translates to the world to come. This quilt acts as a communal practice of envisioning the world we wish to live in and create with our communities. We invited anyone who identifies as an antizionist to respond to the question:
How is Jewish safety and Palestinian liberation inherently intertwined?
After putting out the call for quilt blocks at the end of November 2024, we received 36 blocks from the US and Canada. Quilts blocks were made at workshops in Minneapolis & Chicago as well as individually. One by one they each arrived, an act of solidarity and a small piece of building the world to come.
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Many hands made this quilt. Over the course of the spring and summer, a group of antizionist artists gathered at Spill Paint Not Oil in St. Paul, MN. Together, in community, we decided how the quilt would come to be - the arrangement of the blocks, the technique of assembling the pieces, the poem, the color of sashing and borders.
The quilt was completed on Thursday August 8th, 2024.
The Olam Haba Quilt received 4th place in the Minnesota State Fair Creative Arts Division.​
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​We are inviting folks to donate pins and buttons to the quilt to be adorned onto the blank borders.
Pins can be related to any land back & solidarity movement-as liberation is interconnected.
Pins will be permanently donated to the quilt.
Pins and buttons can be mailed to:
Olam Haba Quilt Project
P.O. Box 6625
Minneapolis, MN 55406
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Any questions please contact:​
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Together we are doing what we know how to do, what we can do to grieve:
each stitch is a prayer
each seam is refuting imperialism
and instead calling for liberation
steadfast
what does devotion mean when showing up to your values everyday?
i’ve often heard the phrase, it’s a marathon not a sprint.
what does it mean to sustain showing up when there is very real urgency for the palestinian people?
Ceasefire now. Ceasefire is just the beginning. Land back, from the river to the sea. We will see Palestine liberated in our lifetime.