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E.ssential Lessons in Jewish Diversity That We’re Bringing With Us to 2021

导航与不同的种族颜色人的拳头的无缝的样式。与强的拳头的背景。

回到2020年6月,国家爆发了。已经被一个可怕的和严重管理的大流行病 - 一个不成比例地影响着颜色的人 - 杀戮乔治弗洛伊德saw Americans take to the streets and decry系统种族主义及其致命的痛苦。我们(大多数)作为一个国家同意,足够了。

But what about the aftermath? In the wake of the re-rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, did we do enough? Simply put, the answer for white and white-presenting Jews has to beno。As we are so often reminded, anti-racist work不是有限的

As we get ready to kick 2020 to the curb, there are some lessons that we learned this year that we can and should take with us to 2021. Of course, we can keep sharing memes and slideshows, but real change comes from actions — and there are actions that we can take to make our homes and our Jewishspaces more welcoming,公平和反种舍。

当然,作为一个白人,德系犹太人,这将是bit weird for me to just rattle off on these important topics from my own limited perspective. So instead, I want to re-share some amazing words that ran in the pages of Kveller since the summer, and some conversations about race and Judaism that we held this year that I think are worth revisiting. They all come from Jewish parents who have had to think about race和ashkenormativityformuch longer than过去六个月 - 他们的观点是值得的。

什么不对犹太人的颜色

Back in January, before coronavirus hit this country, Allison Barnes wrote about the micro and macro aggressions that Jews of Color experience in Jewish spaces. As Barnes, an educator and Jewish mom writes, “even in what I would consider ideal circumstances, in liberal Northern California, where I live, navigating the Jewish world as a Person of Color has often been awkward, invasive, and othering.” She createda list of nine things你不应该对犹太人的犹太人说,而是说什么。

对你的犹太孩子有关种族的话说

6月份,由于黑人生活抗议全部摇摆,Be’chol Lashon’s Marcella White Campbell wrote aboutwhat to say and read to your children about race.She wrote about the importance of acknowledging, seeing, and talking about race with your children, no matter how young they are — and listening to what they have to say about it, in order to gauge what they’ve already advertently and inadvertently taken in.

坎贝尔,巴恩斯和社会工作者Nina Essel也加入了kveller的照明小组讨论,了解我们如何与孩子们关于种族的谈话苹果beplay,以及我们如何提出反种舍犹太儿童。

坎贝尔强调,父母至关重要教育自己关于种族。“父母必须从自己开始。你为孩子建模是什么?这是必不可少的,“坎贝尔在谈话中解释说:”这是一种颜色的人不能为你做的事情。“

来自该谈话的另一个重要外卖是我们需要将内化,作为犹太人,并非所有犹太人都是白人的。

“常时,人们说犹太人and犹太人的犹太人,如犹太小组不包括颜色的人,“巴恩斯告诉我们。“我认为重要的是,当我们说犹太人时,我们正在谈论任何落在犹太人之下的人......而不仅仅是谈论白色或阿什肯纳齐犹太人。”

“反思你和谁社交是很重要的,”Essel提醒我们。“你在餐桌上有谁?你在犹太教堂有谁?这只是白人吗?因为你的孩子会注意到这一点。“

You can read谈话中的更多亮点并在下面观看:

读到你犹太孩子的比赛的内容

确保您的孩子们的书籍是多元化的,并且尽可能多的多样化犹太儿童书籍是一个好主意 - 我们有a list of such anti-racist Jewish books right here。When looking for diverse children’s books, we don’t just want stories of Black excellence; we want stories of Black Jews and Jews of Color just living their lives, celebrating holidays, and asking the Jewish questions that all Jewish kids ask.

This year, Kveller had conversations with three amazing Jews who are creating books about the diverse Jewish experience: Aviva Brown, an author of three children’s books, includingE.ZRA的大小安字样问题;莎拉aroeste,拉夫诺音乐家和作者Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom;和娜塔莎迪亚兹,优秀的YA小说的作者Color Me In.They all stressed the need for more diverse Jewish children’s books, and how these books can help us understand the full breadth of the Jewish experience. You can watch these two illuminating live conversations below:

如何让犹太空间更公平

尼娜埃瑞特,两个黑犹太男孩的母亲,写了如何we need to make Jewish spaces more welcoming for Black Jewish kids like hers

“Regardless of whether or not your synagogue is diverse,” Essel wrote, “does your synagogue or Jewish organization hold events that explore anddiscuss themesof racial justice? Check the bookshelves of your Jewish preschool, are there图书with racialand ethnic diversity?教室有娃娃不同的肤色吗?请求您的希伯来学校和犹太教育组织提供关于来自中国,乌干达等侨民的犹太人的编程,E.thiopia, and Argentina. Ashkenazic synagogues should offer opportunities to learn about Sephardic traditions, melodies, and history. Jews have always stood up to injustice and were active participants in the Civil Rights Movement, but the fight is not over. Jewish institutions must continue this work.”

“与领导交谈在你的犹太教堂她补充说,与其他会众交谈,“这不是一次性事件或对话。需要完全转变我们作为白犹太人,经营和观看世界的方式。这是一个过程,旅程和一个要求我们解开我们所学到的东西的旅程。“

While well-meaning Jews are trying to talk to their synagogues about race, it’s important to stress that cries for activism need to be inclusive too: “You tell a group I’m in, ‘We need to acknowledge our white privilege,’ and I can not do that,” Campbell reminded us in June. By saying that from the pulpit to an entire synagogue, we are erasing Jews of Color. So we — and our leaders — need to be more sensitive.

现在怎么办?

这项工作持续到2021 - 而且!苹果beplay克洛勒仍然决心放大珠宝和非阿什肯纳齐犹太人的声音,以及我们的提交盒子总是打开。您想听的其他观点和对话是什么?您如何在2021年致力于反种舍工作?我们想收到你的来信 - 加入我们的Kveller Moms小组,让我们继续工作和谈话。

Image via Olga Beliaeva

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