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reparations

(Photo/Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why we at Sha’ar Zahav support reparations for slavery

by Deborah Levy March 1, 2023March 27, 2023

In several Torah recountings of our Exodus from Egyptian slavery, we read that when the slaves are set free, they do not go away empty-handed. While these verses are open […]

Eric McDonnell
Posted inBay Area

‘Teach-In on Reparations’ will take movement for Black reparations to synagogue

by Dan Pine August 22, 2022August 23, 2022
At a rally for reparations at the African Burial Ground National Monument, July 23, 2021 in New York City. (Photo/Forward-Michael M. Santiago-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

What would happen if Black Californians received reparations? The Jewish experience provides some answers.

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward June 9, 2022June 9, 2022
Charlotte Seeleman Shlenker (1838-1920), the author's great-great-grandmother, was the daughter of Magdalena Gugenheim Seeleman, who showed up in the 1860 Louisiana slave census (left) as having owned a 29-year-old woman. Charlotte's husband, Isaac, offered a "girl" for sale in an advertisement dated April 10, 1861. (Photos/JTA-Courtesy Barry Block)
Posted inUncategorized

My Jewish ancestors owned slaves. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Rabbi Barry H. Block by Rabbi Barry H. Block and JTA December 13, 2021December 13, 2021
Jews gathered at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn every evening for the month leading up to Tisha B'Av to blow the shofar and call for justice on behalf of Black lives. (Photo/JTA-Ari Beser)
Posted inOpinion

Why Reform Jewish leaders support H.R. 40, the federal reparations bill

Rabbi Sarah Bassin by Rabbi Sarah Bassin, Deitra Reiser, Rabbi Hannah Goldstein and RNS July 29, 2021July 29, 2021
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, seen delivering remarks in 2017, asked why descendants of German Jews should be forced to seek remedies in Germany in the first place. (Photo/JTA-Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Trump administration wants Holocaust restitution cases heard outside US. The Supreme Court seems skeptical.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Supporters of Donald Trump hold signs in Hebrew and English as the president speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (JTA/Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

Dershowitz was right; slavery reparations are misguided; Orthodox Jews wrong on Trump; etc.

by J. Readers February 21, 2020
four women and one man toil in a field of dirt
Posted inLocal Voice

I cried tears of relief when Reform Jews embraced slavery reparations

Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller by Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller January 29, 2020
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inNews

Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African Americans

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 13, 2019December 17, 2019
four women and one man toil in a field of dirt
Posted inHigh Holidays, Bay Area, U.S., History, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Jewish Life, News

Atonement: The Jewish case for black reparations

by Gabriel Greschler October 4, 2019October 4, 2019

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