Anti-Racism Resources
Anti-Racism Resources
Diversity Within the Jewish Community
What is Jewish About Respecting Differences?
Passport to Peoplehood for Families
Israel Resource Cards: Diversity
7 Jewish Books for Kids That Promote Diversity
URJ: Essays from Jews of Color
Be'chol Lashon: Judaism and Race
URJ Voices of Jews of Color
Video: A Message from Yolanda Savage-Narva (password: URJ5780)
Video: A Message from Evan Traylor (password: URJ5780)
Video: A Message from Deitra Reiser (password: URJ5780)
Video: A Message from Three Jews of Color (password: URJ5780)
Resources for Parents Educating Their Children
URJ Statement: Witnessing Protests, Rage, and Our Torah's Unbending Demand for Justice
Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice
George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What Do We Tell Our Children?
How to Talk to Kids about Racism
YouTube: The Atlantic: How to Talk to Kids about Race
YouTube: Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Talking About Race
10 Tips for Teaching and Talking to Kids about Race
100 Race-Conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child to Advance Racial Justice
Teaching Tolerance: Race and Ethnicity
Race and Ethnicity – What’s the Difference?
Repair the World: Racial Justice Service Learning
Jewish Perspectives on Racial Justice
Picture Books that Teach Kids to Combat Racism
A Jewish Anti-Racist Reading List for Children of All Ages
31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance
Iconic Black Jewish Writer Julius Lester Should Be on Every Parent’s Radar
Sesame Street: Lupita Nyong'o Loves Her Skin
YouTube: A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
Best Moments from CNN and Sesame Street's Town Hall on Racism for Kids and Parents
Talking to Kids about #blacklivesmatter
Resources for Educating Yourself
A Guide to Talking to Your White Jewish Family About Anti-Black Racism
Who Counts? Race and the Jewish Future
Mixed Multitude: On Judaism and Racial Justice
I Helped Coin the Term ‘Jews of Color.’ It’s Time for a History Lesson
My Jewish Learning: Blacks and Jews Entangled
My Jewish Learning: Jews in the Civil Rights Movement
Jewish Multiracial Network: Privilege Checklist
The Daily Show's Trevor Noah Explains our Social Contract
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)
What Is White Privilege, Really?
How Monique Melton Is Helping You Be An Anti-Racist
The New York Times: The 1619 Project
ADL: George Floyd, Racism and Law Enforcement
Jewish Social Justice Resources
Queer Jews of Color
Queer Jews of Color Resource List
Keshet: LGBTQ Jews of Color Resources
What It's Like To Be a Black, Gay, Professional Jew
Black, Gay, and Jewish: Passover Lamb and Sweeping Statements
Michael Twitty, Black Jewish Foodie, Talks ‘Culinary Justice’
He Is Black, Gay and Jewish — and He Sings in Yiddish!
Articles to Read
Why You Need to Care About Black Lives Matter: A Young Jew of Color Speaks to White Jews
I’m a Black and Jewish Woman. My Identity Matters
A Day in a Life: How Racism Impacts Families of Color [Info-graphic]
For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies
How White Women’s Tears Threaten Black Existence
What Do We Do with White Folks?
Discourse and Debate: Is Performative Activism Inherently Bad?
When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels
Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong
Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen Is So Important
‘Believe Us’: Black Jews Respond to the George Floyd Protests, in Their Own Words
Books with Jews of Color for Adults to Read
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre
Black, Jewish and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, But the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity by Katya Bibel Azoulay
Black, White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker
Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity by Lise Funderbergs
Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
Oreo by Fran Ross
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff
Shades of Community and Conflict: Biracial Adults of African-American and Jewish-American Heritages by Josylyn C. Segal
Under One Canopy: Readings in Jewish Diversity by Karen Primack
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
The Beautiful People of the Book: A Tribute to Ethiopian Jews in Israel by Colette Berman and Yosef Miller
Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman
20 Books by Black Jewish Authors You Should Read
You Can Order Today from these Black-owned Independent Bookstores
Books with Jews of Color for Children to Read
Book List from the Jewish Multiracial Network
Go to the website above for more information about each book and for more book recommendations.
I Love Jewish Faces by Debra Darvick (ages 5 and under)
A Turn for Noah: A Hanukkah Story by Susan Remick Topek (preschool)
Clap and Count! Action Rhymes for the Jewish Year by Jacqueline Jules (preschool)
Maccabee Jamboree: A Hanukkah Countdown by Cheri Holland and Rosalyn Schanzer (preschool and kindergarten)
What Makes Someone A Jew by Lauren Seidman (preschool and kindergarten)
Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco (elementary school)
Nappy Hair by Carolivia Herron (elementary school)
Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso (elementary school)
It’s Challah Time! It’s Sukkah Time! It’s Hanukkah Time! It’s Purim Time! A Photographic Holiday Series by Latifa Berry Kropf (preschool)
Elijah Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas by Michael Rosen (elementary school)
Day of Delight, A Jewish Sabbath in Ethiopia by Maxine Rose Schur (elementary school)
Four Sides, Eight Nights: A New Spin on Hanukkah by Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi (elementary school)
Jalapeno Bagels by Natasha Wing (elementary school)
God’s Paintbrush by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso (elementary school)
Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury by Ilene Cooper (elementary school)
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester (grades 1–5)
Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence (elementary and middle school)
The Storyteller’s Beads by Jane Kurtz (upper elementary and middle school)
Stealing Home by Ellen Schwartz (upper elementary and middle school)
Let My People Go: Bible Stories by a Freeman of Color by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (middle school)
Always an Olivia by Carolivia Herron, Illustrated by Jeremy Tugeau (ages 7–10, grades 2–4)
Daughters of the Ark by Anna Morgan (ages 10 and up)
Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin (Ages 12 and up)
Zack by William Bell (teens)
Chloe Leiberman (Sometimes Wong) by Carrie Rosten (teens)
Bluish by Virginia Hamilton
Celebrate Hanukkah With Light, Latkes, and Dreidels by Deborah Heiligman
Chag Sameach: A Jewish Holiday Book for Children by Patricia Schaffer
Books to Read about Racism
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color of Love by Mara Gad
Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
The Miner’s Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America by George Yancy
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Films/Shows to Watch
Off and Running (2010)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Do The Right Thing (1989)
13th (2016; Netflix)
Selma (2014)
Cesar Chavez (2014)
The Visitor (2007)
American Son (2019; Netflix)
Dear White People (Netflix)
If Beale St Could Talk (2018; Hulu)
King in the Wilderness (2018; HBO)
See You Yesterday (2019; Netflix)
The Hate You Give (2018; Cinemax)
When They See US (2019; Netflix)
Black Panther (2018; Disney+)
Remember the Titans (2000; Disney+)
Ruby Bridges (1998; Disney+)
Glory Road (2006; Disney+)
Podcasts about Race and Racial Injustice
Code Switch: “Members of Whose Tribe?”
Code Switch: “A Tale of Two School Districts”
Scene on Radio: Seeing White: “How Race Was Made”
We Live Here: “At the Table and Dismissed”
The Daily: “A Weekend of Pain and Protest”
The Diversity Gap: “Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria”
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown: “Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist”
Jews of Color on Social Media
13 Jews of Color to Follow on Social Media Right Now
Ways to Help
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism: Racial Justice
Ways Reform Jews Can Act Now for Racial Justice
What Non-Black Jews Can Do to Combat Anti-Black Racism
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies
Black Lives Matter: List of Ways to Help
Jews for Black Lives: 3 Actions You Can Take Right Now
URJ: Audacious Hospitality Pilot Toolkit
Organizations
Jews of Color: Field Building Initiative
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
National Council of Jewish Women
Communities United against Police Brutality
Links to Resources from Other Synagogues
Antiracism Resources for Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, Texas
Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick's Readings (accompanying Yom Kippur 5779 sermon)
Wed, August 12 2020
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