Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 8pm Eastern
Project Esther: Anatomy of an Authoritarian Threat, with Dove Kent and Dr. Natasha Roth-Rowland
by Reconstructionists Expanding the Conversation
This program will unpack the threat posed by Project Esther, an anti-democratic blueprint from the same foundation that authored Project 2025, and examine how it makes Jews the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian crackdown. We will walk through the background and context for Project Esther as a way to understand where it came from and to identify the kind of interventions that are required from Jews and others to resist it.
Dove Kent is the U.S. Senior Director of Diaspora Alliance. She has served as the Executive Director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice and as Senior Strategy Officer at Bend the Arc. She is a co-founder of Tzedek Lab and a co-author of the culture-shifting publication "Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to our Movement.” Her writings have appeared in anthologies as well as in such outlets as The Guardian, Vox, Ha’aretz, NPR, and Jewish Currents.
Natasha Roth-Rowland is Director of Research and Analysis at Diaspora Alliance and a former editor at +972 Magazine. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Virginia, where she wrote her dissertation on the Israeli- and American-Jewish far right. She lives in Queens, New York, with her wife and daughter.