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An Evening of Deep Listening: Facing and Combatting Racism With/In the Jewish Community (June 2020)
An Evening of Deep Listening: Facing and Combatting Racism With/In the Jewish Community (June 2020)
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We Must Be Bold With Police Accountability
We Must Be Bold With Police Accountability
In 2020, we saw the brutal slaying of George Floyd over a counterfeit $20. A Black man’s life was cut short due to $20, in the moments where he cried out for his mother and told his murderer he couldn’t breathe as a camera rolled, video taping his last moments, it made it clear Black life just was not worth it. Today’s verdict in Minnesota is not justice but a reckoning that we as a society need…
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Michael Twitty
Taking home third place for Barnes & Noble 2017 Discover Awards – Michael Twitty! City Shul And Jews Of Colour Canada will be hosting Mr Twitty on April 15, 2018, 6pm at Mc Clure Hall, 300 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Tickets available through EventBrite.ca
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URJ
New York, NY; March 7, 2018 – To diversify and strengthen the leadership of Reform Jewish communities throughout North America, the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) is investing in 16 individuals as participants in the JewV’Nation (pronounced “juvenation”) Fellowship’s Jews of Color Leadership Cohort. This program will increase opportunities for Reform Jewish communities to benefit from the…
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What Jewish looks like...
What Jewish looks like…
Igbo Tribe, Nigeria “In 5YRS time I foresee Igbo Jews taking over Igboland. In conclusion there exist two types of igbos now Igbo Jews and Igbo Christians” http://www.nairaland.com
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This is Jewish… Saris and Chuppahs for the B’nei Israel Jews of India
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Jewish Life in Africa
Jewish Life in Africa
“Jewish life is thriving in Africa. That’s what British-American photographer Jono David discovered during a four-year journey across the continent. David set out to document the Jewish landscape of Africa, from dwindling European enclaves in South Africa to the isolated Egyptian Jewish community — to the unprecedented blossoming of Judaism among Sub-Saharan Africans.” Forward.com Read…
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Siona Benjamin: Jewish Indian Artist
Siona Benjamin: Jewish Indian Artist
Siona Benjamin is a painter originally from Bombay, now living in the US. Her work reflects her background of being brought up Jewish in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. In her paintings she combines the imagery of her past with the role she plays in America today, making a mosaic inspired by both Indian miniature paintings and Sephardic icons. Read more at: Siona Benjamin Website
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The Black Orthodox
Joeseph David Savoy: The Black Orthodox The Black Orthodox: Joseph David Savoy NYMAG.ORG “I moved to New York in 2007, and in Crown Heights the Jewish community has been wonderful. But from African-Americans, every day I get looks and stares. I’ve had people yell “Heil Hitler.” One guy threatened to stab me. If there are people behind me and I turn around, they’ll literally jump like they’ve seen…
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Emerson Swift Mahon: A Canadian Jew
By: Eiran Harris – Canadian Jewish News Read more at: Emerson Swift Mahon In 1912, a young black man left Grenada in a quest for learning. His voyage led him to Canada and conversion to Judaism “May you be written in the book of life in the New Year,” says the greeting in Yiddish on the back of a photograph of a black man in a broad-brimmed hat (see picture on cover). That man, Emerson Swift…
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Hirut Yosef an Israeli-Ethiopian Artist
Read about her at Forward.com Hirut Yosef
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