Racial Justice Is a Path to Jewish Security
January 11, 2025
We call on the Jewish community to stay steadfast in racial justice transformation.
Rabbi David Jaffe is the founder and executive director of the Kirva Institute-Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project. He is the author of Changing the World From the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. David wrote the curriculum and was the lead educator on the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Tikkun Middot Project.
We call on the Jewish community to stay steadfast in racial justice transformation.
Small human connections are the relational glue that can determine whether our communities and societies fracture under a tyrant or resist tyranny.
This piece describes Jacob’s experience as a student, practitioner and teacher of Mussar through his involvement with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Tikkun Middot Project.
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
