Workbooks, Definitions and Similar Resources
Definitions of terms by Tzedek Lab (THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO START): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YIn7Rn9se2KRJwevj7XuD4487huuZarsCrA7D46zioc/edit
Jewish Social Justice Roundtable: Racial Justice Framework https://www.jewishsocialjustice.org/framework
Dismantling Racism: 2016 workbook: https://resourcegeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2016-dRworks-workbook.pdf
Aware L.A. Toolkit, written in part by SCCBD Dayan and Rabbi Susan Goldberg: https://www.awarela.org/toolkit
Articles
Skin in the Game by Eric K. Ward https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism
How Studying Talmud Helped Me Understand Racism in America by Avi Killip https://forward.com/opinion/347032/how-studying-talmud-helped-me-understand-racism-in-america/
I Told Jews To Think About What Being ‘White’ Means. Then The Racism Exploded by Nylah Burton https://forward.com/opinion/405083/i-told-jews-to-think-about-what-being-white-means-then-the-racism-exploded/
I’m Not White, I’m Jewish by Paul Kivel http://paulkivel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/imnotwhiteimjewish.pdf
Books
Black Reconstruction in America by W.E. B. DuBois
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
How To Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity by Eric L. Goldstein
How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin
The Color of Love by Marra Gad
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Traditional texts/re-visioned texts
The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible. Marcia Falk, trans.; Barry Moser, illus. https://www.marciafalk.com/order.html
Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5:
The first human was created alone…This was done for the sake of peace among humankind so that no one could say to another, “My father is greater than your father”…and to demonstrate the greatness of God in that if a person stamps coins with one seal, they are all alike, but the Holy Blessed One stamped each person with the seal of the first person and not one is like another.
Black Lives Matter Haggadah Supplement by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice: https://ritualwell.org/sites/default/files/JFREJ_BLM_Haggadah_STL%2BKU_extended.pdf
Truth, Reconciliation and Repair in Engaging Racism: “Al Chet” By Yavilah McCoy https://docs.google.com/document/d/12zOqQ_15zkPOqIG84cH6Go-WBP4je4HG1JM-E4KXJSY/edit
Websites
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice: https://www.jfrej.org/
Bend the Arc: https://www.bendthearc.us/
Be’chol Lashon: https://globaljews.org/
Dismantling Racism: https://www.dismantlingracism.org/
Aware-LA: https://www.awarela.org/
TribeHerald: https://tribeherald.com/
