Dear community,
These days are a time of prayer and action. Prayer, tending to our own and the collective profound spiritual need. Action, moving, building, a transformed world. Prayer and action. Action and prayer. Both and at once.
We are hearing from you that you want to know more about how to be involved and engaged in these times and we are receiving from you ways to be engaged and involved. These resources and opportunities for learning, doing, and giving have been shared by sister organizations and by Nefesh kin and will be updated.
By section: Doing — Giving — Learning
- See the new Nefesh calendar for actions and trainings and contact us to add one at nefeshinfo@gmail.com
- Jews of Color Initiative, a national effort focused on building and advancing the professional, organizational and communal field for Jews of Color.
- NEW June 26 AntiRacistResource.info, a comprehensive list regularly updated
- NEW June 12 In This Together LA (Instagram), follow for daily action lists
- NEW June 12 Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Action and donation calls in your state
- NEW June 12 Global Jews: Events & Actions and Black Jewish voices
- SIJCC’s Anti-Racism Training for white members of our community. If you are interested in being among the first to know when details for this training are finalized, please indicate your interest
- Dimensions Educational Consulting, a women and Jewish People of Color led nonprofit that provides training and consultancy in diversity, equity and inclusion
- Jewish Multiracial Network, nurturing and enhancing Jewish diversity throughout the community
- LA Voice and IKAR Community Organizing. Join their ongoing work for justice and racial equity. Email mtorganizing@ikar-la.org to join their email list and attend their meeting, Tuesday, June 16 at 7 pm.
- As you assess whether it feels right for you to go out to in person protests right now, here are some guidelines that Bend the Arc has put together to help keep you safe.
- IAJs for Racial Justice – Join the growing community of Iranian American Jews for racial justice
- Jews for Black Lives Matter/Ian Schiffer: I’m reaching out to express care and love to you in this time. What legacy do we want to leave in this moment? A collective of #Jews4BlackLives in LA have come together to show up to say #BlackLivesMatter and say that our liberation internally and externally in our city is rooted in #DefundThePolice and adopting a Peoples Budget that allows people to thrive. We have put together a petition to show our support and target Jewish leaders like Mayor Garcetti (who proposed 54% of the budget going to police) and City Council-members to #DefundPolice and adopt a #PeoplesBudget that invests in #CareNotCops Sign here: bit.ly/Jews4BlackLives
- The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) schedule for a week of actions: https://m4bl.org/week-of-action/
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- The SIJCC shared these educational Anti-Racism Resources for White People. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves to advance racial equity and justice.
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The Poor People’s Campaign: An Opportunity to Put Our Values into Action, June 11, 2020
- SIJCC’s Anti-Racism Training: We have a responsibility to not just use our words to stand in solidarity, we also must act. To that end, we are planning an anti-racism training for white members of our community. If you are interested in being among the first to know when details for this training are finalized, please indicate your interest.
- From Nefesh Kin Ian Schiffer: This is an incredible course I’m planning on starting this free 5-Day Racialized Trauma somatics course on white body supremacy – join me! If you are a White Jew, check out these action steps for fighting white supremacy, sign up here for White People for Black Lives orientation Wednesday at 6PM and read this article on JOC and the Policing of White Space.
- From Upstart: Amplify and listen to Jews of Color and diverse voices. We encourage you to seek out news, books, and media from JOCs and people of color, like TribeHerald, and to read the recent, powerful pieces by leaders in our wider network:
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh – http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
- Check out TribeHerald, multicultural media and one-of-a-kind local experiences catering to the nearly 2 million Jews of Color, their friends, allies, and loved ones
- Believe US: Black Jews Respond to the George Floyd Protests in their Own Words
- An Argument for Inclusion, Nate Looney’s call to action.
- Black Jews to White Jews, examines the Jewish communities’ relationship with the police, The Forward, June 3, 2020
- Listen to the Black community and read What We in the Black Community Need from Jews Right Now, The Forward, May 31, 2020
- Hey Alma is highlighting the voices of Jews of Color in a series of incredible articles
- 13 Jews of Color to Follow who are spearheading discourse on race and Judaism on social media (Kveller)
- June 8: Oren Jay Sofer, 10 Things White People Can Do
- June 8: Moishe House, Anti-Racism Resource list
- June 11: Resources for Parents to Talk with Their Children About Racism (from Danielle & Noa)
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June 19: Here are some reading materials from Jewish press:
June 19: Books
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