Antiracism

Thank you for listening and learning and for doing you part as a pursuer of justice. Hard conversations about being anti-racist and an ally are finally happening. Good!

Here are Rabbi Greene’s recommendations to begin or further your education. 

Resources and Tools

• Anti-Oppression Terms List from National Council of Jewish Women
• Racial Bias Test - helping to understand implicit bias via Harvard University

Articles, blogs and op-eds

• Never Again, Northern Star, Stacey Aviva Flint
• For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies, in Sojourners, a Christain magazine. 
• Why I Am a Zionist for Black Lives Matter
• The Boogaloo: Extremists’ New Slang Term for A Coming Civil War, ADL
• Jewish Values and Reform Movement Positions on Racial Justice, Rabbi Josh Weinberg
• We can -- we must -- show up as Zionists for Black Lives Matter, Amanda Berman
• You don’t have to choose between Black Lives Matter and Israel, Carly Pildis

Sermons and Jewish teachings

• 2 min 53sec of Silence that Scream: #BlackLivesMatter, Rabbi Sharon Brous
• Truth, Reconciliation and Repair in Engaging Racism: Al Chet, Yavilah McCoy
• Privilege, Rabbi Greene on May 29
• Jews of Color, Rabbi Greene on June 5
• Lament and Hope, Rabbi Greene on June 12
• Juneteenth, Rabbi Greene on on June 19
• Radical Empathy, Rabbi Greene on Yom Kippur Morning

Articles from Jews of Color

• Blog Posts from ReformJudaism.org with the tag Jews of Color
• The Black Jews are Tired, Chris Harrison
• ‘Believe Us’: Black Jews respond to the George Floyd protests, in their own words, JTA
• What will YOU do to end systemic racism?, Carly Pildis
• I Helped Coin the Term ‘Jews of Color.’ It’s Time for a History Lesson, Shahanna McKinney-Baldon

Articles about Jews of Color

• Yiddisher Black cantors from 100 years ago rediscovered thanks to rare recording - Times of Israel

Books

• How to Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility, Robin J. DiAngelo
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
• Breathe, Imani Perry
• The Color of Love, Marra B. Gad - about her experiences growing up biracial and Jewish
• Moral Resistance & Spiritual Authority, Rabbis Seth M. Limmer and Jonah Pesner
• Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews, and Latinos, David Shoem
• How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America, Karen Brodkin
• The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity, Eric Goldstein
• To Stand Aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement, P. Allen Krause
• Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Marc Dollinger

Webinars

• Weaponizing White Supremacy during COVID-19, NCJW

Podcasts

• Wholly Jewish: Series one features 15 interviews with individuals form the Union for Reform Judaism’s JewV’Nation Fellowship’s Jews of Color Leadership Cohort.
• The 1619 Project: aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
• Nice White Parents: traces the history of a public school in Brooklyn and the interactions among the school and system administration, Black and white parents, and neighborhood.

Movies, Documentaries and TedTalks

• 13th (Netflix)
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS)
• Eyes On the Prize (PBS)
• Slavery By Any Other Name (PBS)
• When They See Us (Netflix)
• PBS' Race and Racism in America Streaming Content (PBS)

TedTalks

• How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them - Verna Myers
• We Need to Talk About an Injustice - Bryan Stevenson
• The Urgency of Intersectionality - Kimberle Crenshaw
• Color Blind or Color Brave - Mellody Hobson
• The Danger of Silence - Clint Smith
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion - Peggy McIntosh

ELITalks

• Dignity of Difference: A Place for Everyone at the Shabbat Table - Abby Knopp
• Who Counts? Race and the Jewish Future - Ilana Kaufman
• The Rod and The Whip: Accountability for Law Enforcement - Aryeh Bernstein
• We Will Hear and We Will Profit: The Mitzvah of Inclusion - Howard Blas  

From ReformJudaism.org
Racial Justice Resources for Reform Jews