Resources on Judaism and Race
March 12, 2021
How do we expand our image of Jews to include people of color, and how should Jews deal with systemic racism in America?
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How do we expand our image of Jews to include people of color, and how should Jews deal with systemic racism in America?
How can we sanctify our on-line lives by acting according to our values? How can we use the resources on line to enrich our lives?
How is Jewish status conferred? In this 2013 document from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, the tension between biology and identity is most prominent.
Explore the history of antisemitism and its shapes today, and reflect upon our contemporary responses.
What are the assumptions about the nature of reality and the human psyche/soul that underlie our spiritual practices? Teachers of different Jewish practices reflect on this question.
How do Jewish communities continue to become spaces for gender liberation?
Rabbi Toba Spitzer dives into the use of metaphors in framing a picture of the Jewish people that is encompassing and defining, drawing on three conceptual metaphors: “covenant,” “narrative” and “tribal.”
In 2018, Rabbis Toba Spitzer and Brant Rosen engaged in an epistolary back and forth on Evolve about the questions of narrative writing around Israel/Palestine. By studying their words, we find a model for how to engage with kavod in a makhloket leshem shamayim.
n this month’s December beit midrash, we’ll explore how identity politics hold an increasingly defining role in the American social and political landscape of the 21st century.Rabbi Jane Litman explores the complexity of holding Jewish identity in relationship to other identities.
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