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The process of reparations requires a transformation of the soul of America.
We must bring to life that world where the tzelem Elohim (image of the Divine) of every person is recognized and can shine out.
Our children inhabit a race-based society and receive messages about how to apply racial labels.
How might we understand reparations as a Jewish issue?
Womanist biblical interpretation privileges characters on the margins of the text, often reading against the text, and the nation and characters it valorizes.
Rethink what exactly you may be doing when you invoke Black trauma, and the art created in response to it, as part of your Passover celebrations.
Biblical characters have been whitewashed in cultural and religious arts, theology and popular imagination. Whiteness has been spackled onto biblical texts and characters.

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