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Rabbi Donna Cephas was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2021. In 2008, she received a Master’s Degree in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 2019 she co-founded the Voices of Jerusalem Narrative Project where the voices of Jewish, Muslim and Christian women are shared in a film and written portraits. In 2013, she became the founding President of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, a nationwide network of Muslim and Jewish women. Â
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Currently, Donna is the Rabbi of String of Pearls, a Reconstructionist Congregation in Princeton, New Jersey. She is the Co-Chair of the Tikkun Olam Commission for Reconstructing Judaism, and represents the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Synagogues.Â
Co-written by Rabbis Sandra Lawson and Donna Cephas, this essay examines the assumption that all Jews are white, while touching on a myriad of interrelated issues: conversion, interracial families, adoption, Ashkenazi privilege and political correctness.
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