Conversations About Race with Rabbi Carie Carter and Prof. Angela Weisl

Join Rabbi Carie Carter and Professor Angela Weisl for a series of honest conversations about race, using Ibram X. Kendi’s work as a guide.  Beginning with the Introduction and first two chapters, we will explore racism and anti-racism in America and in our own lives.  These sessions will be approximately every two weeks, Wednesdays at 7:10pm, beginning Wednesday, June 17th. The next session is July 1st.   

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What shiva can teach us about holding Black people during this traumatic time.

Article: Try To See Me

By Kenny Kahn, Jewish&, May 29, 2020

Even before the pandemic, even before I started wearing a mask in public, some people saw me as just a big, suspicious-looking black guy because of their implicit biases.

Article: What to Say and Read to Your Children Right Now About Race

By Marcella White Campbell, Kveller, June 5, 2020

Children know when we aren’t sincere. When they see dissonance between our words and our actions, they follow our actions.

Lift Every Voice and Sing (In English and in Hebrew)

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Starting Difficult Conversations on Race

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Conversations About Race with Rabbi Carie Carter and Prof. Angela Weisl

Join Rabbi Carie Carter and Professor Angela Weisl for a series of honest conversations about race, using Ibram X. Kendi’s work as a guide.  Beginning with the Introduction and first two chapters, we will explore racism and anti-racism in America and in our own lives.  These sessions will be approximately every two weeks, Wednesdays at 7:00, beginning Wednesday, June 17th and continuing on the following dates:

• July 1

• July15

• July 22

• August 12

• August 19

• August 26

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